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January 24, 2014
Chris
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Test GZIP compression of your server easily

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If you are running servers (which you hopefully do), then Gzip compression should be a topic, as this simple thing will usually speed up you loading times dramatically, reducing the page size down to 10% for non-binary content /text is quite common, or 50% for the entire page. Anyway, testing if compression works is not so easy, therefore his excellent sweet little online tool helps with instant testing:

http://www.gziptest.com

The result looks like this:

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