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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 6025

Reducing HTML File Size - something more than minimisation?

I've been looking in Firebug at the Net tab where it shows the size of files.

A lot of high traffic sites seemingly have surprisingly small initial GET sizes for the url.

For example, GET www.hostmonster.com comes in at 3.9KB. (Apologies to those who are offended by the example.)

If I put the hostmonster HTML source into an editor, though, it saves at 12KB. If I run it through an online compressor, it only reduces it to 11KB.

What is going on that it's down to 3.9KB?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1315

Answers (4)

Halil Özgür
Halil Özgür

Reputation: 15945

It's compressed, you can see the real size below the transferred amount:

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Upvotes: 1

NullPoiиteя
NullPoiиteя

Reputation: 57322

you can use the either GZip or Deflate comparison for that you need to get the module on in Apache for Deflate its the deflate_module and for Gzip its the mod_gzip

i would recommended the mod Gzip

to learn How to install mod_gzip

and the live example of the mod_gzip is below

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Upvotes: 1

Jon Hanna
Jon Hanna

Reputation: 113282

GZip or Deflate compression.

Most often through the Content-Encoding header (though we're really all using it as a transfer encoding, but support for that is poor).

Upvotes: 1

FluffyJack
FluffyJack

Reputation: 1732

Use Gzipping. Check out the most recent CSS Tricks screencast it will take you through many techniques to speed up your site and will describe how to setup Gzipping much better than I can here.

Upvotes: 2

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