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vB3Dev.Com
Sun 27th Jul '03, 3:39am
What level is recommended and why in vB 2.3.0?
Erwin
Sun 27th Jul '03, 3:45am
1.

Any higher, and you increase your server load with minimal additional compression.
vB3Dev.Com
Sun 27th Jul '03, 4:01am
well. I set it to 1 and I get ZERO increase in speed. so what't the point of having gzip options if that is the case?
stanmxl
Sun 27th Jul '03, 6:33am
well. I set it to 1 and I get ZERO increase in speed. so what't the point of having gzip options if that is the case?

You save bandwidth and people connecting from dial-up do notice a difference in speed.
vB3Dev.Com
Sun 27th Jul '03, 6:36am
I am on dial up and do not see any difference.
stanmxl
Sun 27th Jul '03, 6:54am
I am on dial up and do not see any difference.

Then your page was small enough to begin with. In any event, the bandwidth is the real difference and reason to use gzip.
Erwin
Sun 27th Jul '03, 8:49am
well. I set it to 1 and I get ZERO increase in speed. so what't the point of having gzip options if that is the case? Check the size of the downloaded HTML page before and after GZIPping - there will be a difference. Having GZIP on for my forums have reduced by bandwidth by close to half.
mark99
Tue 12th Aug '03, 9:51am
Remember, not all servers implement GZip properly (it can be quite twitchy), so it might only register in the headers and yet not actually physically compress the data.

Sometimes it works on my server, other times a minor module is upgraded and it stops. It use to be much more stable, but not anymore.

Load a large page and then under MS IE (doesn't always work with other browsers) right-click and select propertise. The page should be between 3 and 12K, with the days of 40/100K pages being gone.
fiNal
Wed 13th Aug '03, 6:18am
i just set it from 1 to 9... and i think it got faster. i opened a poll on my board, 50% say its faster now :)
Zachery
Sun 24th Aug '03, 12:14pm
1.

Any higher, and you increase your server load with minimal additional compression.
your also increasing your server load quite abit if theres alot of traffic

disable gzip for a moment and try this link it will show you what gzip comression will do for your page
vB3Dev.Com
Sun 24th Aug '03, 11:25pm
Well, I certainly appreciate all the helpful responses here. Thanks to all of you!