Optimizing Your Site With GZIP
I just came across this great article in “Better Explained”. GZIP is a great tool to optimize your site and boy we can always use all the help we can get. Read on.
How To Optimize Your Site With GZIP Compression
Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. I hesitated when recommending gzip compression when speeding up your javascript because of problems in older browsers.
But it’s 2007. Most of my traffic comes from modern browsers, and quite frankly, most of my users are fairly tech-savvy. I don’t want to slow everyone else down because somebody is chugging along on IE 4.0 on Windows 95. Google and Yahoo use gzip compression. A modern browser is needed to enjoy modern web content and modern web speed — so gzip encoding it is. Here’s how to set it up. Read more.
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December 27th, 2008 at 6:00 am
How are you? your website is nice
I have a new band and we just had a live gig you can see here:
http://tinyurl.com/9zdns5