On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Gustaf Rosell wrote:
> The figures we got was that text data was 20% more efficient in binary
> mode. But since most sites today consist of text and to a large extent GIF
> images (which are not affected by the binary format), the effect is
> considerably lower, in the order of 10% as an average.
Better numbers could be achieved if the keitai browsers would
accept gzip encoded content (this is what most of the http 1.1
compliant browsers do - the Accept-Encoding: gzip header).
Gzipping the content on the fly is not the same thing as WAP's
binary xml, but basically it also compresses the data into binary
format before sending it to browser. HTML/XML/etc content
typically if 70%-80% smaller after compressing. With images the
total number is approximately 30%.
Many websites with huge pages, especially sites with online
bulletinboards etc have successfully used the gzipping the
content to reduce bandwith usage and server load.
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
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Received on Fri Feb 9 13:40:37 2001