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Web technology fact of the day

Sam Soltano — 2016-12-05T00:00:00Z

70% of all websites are using compression, up from 43.3% five years ago.

Sam Soltano — 2014-11-12T00:00:00Z

92% of the top 1,000 websites use HTTP compression, compared to 58.3% of all sites.

Matthias Gelbmann — 2013-01-02T00:00:00Z

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Sam Soltano — 2012-09-28T00:00:00Z

50% of all websites now use HTTP compression, up from 40% one year ago.

Sam Soltano — 2012-05-08T00:00:00Z

97.6% of all sites that use http compression use gzip, only 2.4% use deflate.

Sam Soltano — 2012-04-02T00:00:00Z

84% of the top 1000 websites use HTTP compression, compared to 45.6% of all sites.

Sam Soltano — 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

Usage of HTTP compression is highest in France and Poland (over 60%) and lowest in Japan (14%).

Matthias Gelbmann — 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

A closer look at our surveys on HTTP compression.

Sam Soltano — 2011-06-27T00:00:00Z

Compression is used on 90% of LiteSpeed servers, 74% of Nginx servers, but only 23% of IIS servers: Compression broken down by web servers