Holy Compression Batman!

Posted At : August 23, 2007 10:26 AM | Posted By : Rey Bango
Related Categories: Optimization

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:

IIS Compression in IIS6.0

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

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'll have to probe this a little further.

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Thanks for turning off compression and fixing the RSS feed. I only recently added you and have been wondering this past week why your RSS feed wasn't working. Glad you got that figured out.

# Posted By Ed | 8/27/07 6:50 PM

Sorry about that Ed and thank you for adding me to your feeds.

# Posted By Rey Bango | 8/27/07 8:04 PM

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