Is there a compression level which will provide an optimal balance between file size reduction and client decompression time/cost?
I was wondering which GZIP compression level provided the best balance between file size reduction and decompression time. Compression time doesn't really matter since it will only be compressed once and cached. However, I'm concerned that if I set the compression level too high, any gains from file size reduction will be wiped out by the time and cost required to decompress the file on the client side.