On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 00:18, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:
> Almost all HTTP content is gzip'ed already. I doubt any compression > above that is going to be worth the CPU time cost. > Do you have a cite for this? The best things I can find (with a whopping total of two minutes on Google, admittedly) are things like http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000compression/ which, while two years old, says that only about 1/4 of Web sites are using server-side gzip compression. Then again, those numbers do come from a company that sells a compression ISAPI for Microsoft IIS Web servers, so it's probably in their best interest to tweak the numbers downward a bit. I'm hoping for a more reliable source. (Netcraft, for instance, doesn't seem to have anything, which surprises me.) (That also doesn't account for the fact that gzip is a really old compression scheme, and if you're using a client-side application like Propel, you'll likely get better compression than gzip.) > Even if the software was free, who would support the people who are > terrified to install anything at all? If you were deploying something like this, presumably your field techs would be installing and testing the software on customers' PCs when you do whatever else you do to install new customers. If you already have a large customer base, though, you'd probably have to accept that some large number of your customers never would install the software, and that you wouldn't get all the benefits from it. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
