Anyone tried httpzip or is there better out there?

[Sticks79]

Need to shrink some websites of mine just wondering if any one has tried Port80 Software Products File Compression for IIS Servers I know there is a 30 day trial but if it's any good I'll just buy it.

Or is there anything better available, I haven't really had to compress my sites before, so I know nothing bout this kinda stuff, tis why I'm asking.

 

[micker]

Isnt that already built into apache?

If you run apache you can just use mod_deflate or mod_gunzip to do that.

As for IIS, no clue, I'm no help on the windows boxen.

 

[nvanprooyen]

It's also built into IIS.

Microsoft Corporation

 

[goddfadda]

Isnt that already built into apache?

If you run apache you can just use mod_deflate or mod_gunzip to do that.

As for IIS, no clue, I'm no help on the windows boxen.

Lets hope you're running Apache and not IIS...

Here's some mod_deflate to get ya started. It can go in your httpd.conf or apache2.conf files (depending on apache version). It also assumes you enabled mod_deflate. At the very least, google these directives and it'll lead you to some good examples.

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom_xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-eruby
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

#Highest 9 - Lowest 1
DeflateCompressionLevel 9

#Optional
#Skip browsers with known problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

Your sites will AUTO compress/decompress on the fly. You can check with firebug if the data was gzipped when it arrived to the browser.

 

[Sticks79]

Lets hope you're running Apache and not IIS...

Here's some mod_deflate to get ya started. It can go in your httpd.conf or apache2.conf files (depending on apache version). It also assumes you enabled mod_deflate. At the very least, google these directives and it'll lead you to some good examples.

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom_xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-eruby
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

#Highest 9 - Lowest 1
DeflateCompressionLevel 9

#Optional
#Skip browsers with known problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

Your sites will AUTO compress/decompress on the fly. You can check with firebug if the data was gzipped when it arrived to the browser.

Awesome +rep & yeah I'm running Apache.