Compress web pages for fast delivery
29/08/2003
HTTP Overclocking!
if you didn't know already, you can send stuff at a browser (IE, mozilla, opera etc.) nowadays in gzip format - WOW. So this means reducing you web page sizes by typically 50-80%. I know two ways of doing this.
With php
This is so much fun! just use:
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
put this at the top of your script, after any headers output - and that's it!
I believe you can also get php to do this by default with zlib, try here for more info:
http://www.webcompression.org/php-compress.html
With the webserver (Apache or IIS)
With apache you can use mod_gzip or mod_deflate, and tell it to compress html php css etc.
This is something for the server admin to do, here's some links more info:
http://www.webcompression.org/gzip-compress.html
http://www.webcompression.org/deflate-compress.html
If you wanna know what to do with IIS try here:
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020314.htm
test it out:
http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chriskirkland.net
