[MGNLCACHE-195] Use and default to the Brotli compression over gzip for html, js and css resources Created: 18/Dec/17 Updated: 30/Aug/21 |
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| Status: | Open |
| Project: | Cache Modules |
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| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Neutral |
| Reporter: | Martin DrĂ¡pela | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Unresolved | Votes: | 0 |
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While studying The abbreviation stands for Brotli - "... a data format specification for data streams compressed with a specific combination of the general-purpose LZ77 lossless compression algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modelling." (from Wikipedia), developed by Google (see Zoltan Szabadka's blog post Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet). Some additional secondary literature suggests that for packing and HTTPS the Brotli compression may be better than gzip:
Both the standard and modern browser support seem to be present for Brotli: See also:
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