- From: Laurence Penney <lorp@lorp.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:40:46 +0100
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On 23 Jul 2009, at 01:15, John Hudson wrote: > Does anyone have actual statistics on how much web traffic is served > gzip compressed? I'm testing a variety of sites using the gzip test > tool to which Laurence linked, and I'm finding more that are not > compressed than are, but obviously this is a tiny sampling. For anyone else running tests and gathering stats, be advised that GIDZipTest, the compression testing site I mentioned[1], does not follow redirects and needs to be pointed at the final URL seen in the browser, thus: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ <--- not compressed, but redirects to... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ <--- compressed http://en.wikipedia.org/ <--- crashes GIDZipTest, but redirects to... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page <--- compressed Regarding the promotion of automatic gzip compression of fonts, it could well be a reasonable criticism that our customers may not have control over 'SetOutputFilter' Apache settings (or equivalent). - L [1] http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
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