About Gzip compression

[Leb4All]

Hello,

When i enter to Cookies..I find this: Level of Gzip Compression

it is pointed to: 1

what if i make it 9 or 5 ?? does that mean that it will compress more? and decrease from the original size?

does it have any side effects?

thx

[Steve Machol]

Leave it at '1'. Higher settings substantially increase the server load without providing any noticeable benefit.

[Leb4All]

thx alot

if u have 1% feelng or knowledge that it may help the compression please send back to update the number

[Scott MacVicar]

I ran some test a few years back, The compression ratio for a 200kb text file was:
Gzip level 1 0.593
Gzip level 6 (default) 0.586
Gzip level 9 0.585

Its less than 1% difference, the thing was compression took about 30% longer for level 6 and 50% for level 9. So your CPU would go up a great deal for a really minimal smaller size.

[Leb4All]

Mr.Scott

thax a lot

sorry, but u mentioned that Gzip 6 (default)

the default in my board is 1

do i make it 6 or keep it on 1 ?

[Zachery]

Use 1.

[Scott MacVicar]

6 is the default for the gzip command line utility.

[Leb4All]

oky dokie

thx a lot