Timeline for Should I compress very small HTML pages?
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| Oct 24, 2019 at 10:59 | comment | added | Tom Brossman | @minusf Thanks, that information is helpful. Please edit my answer if you think it can be improved, or post a new one if you prefer a complete rewrite. | |
| Oct 23, 2019 at 9:53 | comment | added | minusf |
there are 2 issues with this answer: 1. gzip_static ignores gzip_min_length and will serve the gz file however big it is. the answer does not make this exception clear. 2. yes, smallest ethernet MTU is 1400 bytes. however nginx takes the "length" from the http response's Content-Length header which does not include the size of the header fields. In http 1.1 the headers are not compressed, so if the page is heavy on headers, even a tiny gzipped bodied response might spill over into multiple ethernet frames.
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| Feb 14, 2016 at 14:53 | comment | added | Rob | The 1400 bytes point is missed by many people. | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 9:01 | history | answered | Tom Brossman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |