gzip or not to gzip - This is my question! 1

[southbeach]

Is there a benefit to compressing rendered output in PHP?

My first thought is NO since it can increase load/push time thus making your website slower.

What do you guys/gals have to say about pros and cons the use of gziplib?

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[vacunita]

I may be mistaken, but I suspect you are confusing what the ZLib library does.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.zlib.php

It does not compress output per se.

It generates compressed files or strings in gz format. i.e if you wanted to automatically produce a compressed archive for download from the website. Or compress a string to then store in a file directly.

It does not and should not be used to compress the final HTML code output, otherwise no browser would be able to do anything with it. Browsers do not decompress gz formatted data.

Or are you talking about something else?









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[southbeach]

Nope, you are not mistaken - I was ...

I can now see, how this is very useful.

Thanks!


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