Re: does gzipping buffer really speed retrieval?

I'd have to say that more than likely it'd help some. Only you can determine it for certain - if there is a lot of compressable stuff, then yes. It would be faster to send 50k than 400k over the same wire. How fast the other machine can *uncompress* then render may affect things some, but I'd suspect it's still faster. We're using it and it has seemed to help in some cases - people on dialup connections are reporting that the site 'feels faster', but those at the client's office on T1s and such don't seem to notice too much. An average page size for us is ~40-50k, for comparison. Paul Fernandez wrote: > Hi, > > I load large (300-500k) dynamic pages from a query. It takes some time to load... would it > load faster if I gzipped the buffer and sent that over to the browser? > > PF -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961