[nevetS]

Not trying to rain on anyone's parade here, but I have a question.

Doesn't vB support zlib compression out of the box? And wouldn't zlib compression give you this level of compression and more? And wouldn't adding this in addition to zlib compression needlessly increase the server load?

Like I said - not trying to rain on anybody's parade - this seems like a great concept - but I would like an explanation as to why I am wrong if there is one.

I'm not affiliated with this site - and I'm not sure if there's a linking policy here, but you can test the difference in the output by checking your page here: http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/ it shows the original size, and gzipped size. I'm wondering if anybody who has it installed can report the improved numbers factoring in gzip compression.

I'm just thinking - if your real-world size improvement is closer to 1%, then maybe this isn't as good of an idea. If you aren't using gzip compression, then I expect the results from this plugin would be much more dramatic.

Just some thoughts...

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This was such an easy install, I thought I'd try it out myself. Here are my results:
Plugin Active: [page compression: 81.58 k/98.58 k (17.24%)]
gzip page reports:
Original Size: 84 K
Gzipped Size: 11 K
Data Savings: 86.9%

With the product disabled:
gzip page reports:
Original Size: 89 K
Gzipped Size: 12 K
Data Savings: 86.52%

I find it strange that the website and the plugin report different page sizes, but it's probably a matter of one of them calculating /1024 versus the other one calculating /1000. The plugin did show improvement, but like I expected, not too much. I don't have an active forum, so I couldn't do this test on a lot of pages. I also have no idea how much this plugin would actually affect server load. Probably not that much, but I imagine it's really a question of webmaster preference as to whether or not this is worth it.

Great plugin though hellcat! And a serious amount of improvement for anyone not using compression already.