HTTP Compression for web applications
Author:
Chandramohan Lingam
HTTP Compression: Unlock the potential of Web servers to improve application response time and reduce bandwidth costs.
Today’s Web sites are rich in content and provide capabilities similar to a full-fledged client application. Providing rich capabilities has an undesired side effect of increasing the page size. In most cases, the factor that determines the success of a Web application is the responsiveness. The best way to keep the site responsive is to minimize the size of the downloaded pages. Considering the fact that most of the content in a page is textual data, HTTP compression is a promising scheme to improve the response time. Compression algorithms are effective with text data and can achieve 70-80% compression. This article provides some insight into how Internet Information Services* 6.0 compression improves the overall performance while answering question on impact to CPU utilization, application throughput, dynamic and static applications, SSL enabled sites.
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