So I needed to look into compression techniques for IIS and I decided to enable HTTP compression via IIS.  I followed the steps outlined in this article:

<a href="http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parentid/170/site/3669/68/default.aspx">IIS Compression in IIS6.0</a>

restarted IIS and was COMPLETELY floored by the results. The main page of <a href="http://www.gotcfm.com">Gotcfm.com</a> which already was a nice & trim 105k shrunk down to less than half of that!! <strong>It now comes it at a tiny 45k, JS & CSS included! WOAH!!</strong>

Now before you run out and go crazy adding compression, be sure to test out your prod code on a dev server. Compression can mess with your files in unexpected ways, especially files that have been previously minified or packed.

Update: So enabling compression somehow messed up my RSS feed for the blog. As soon as I disabled it, the RSS feed worked perfectly. I&apos;ll have to probe this a little further.