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Usage of Gzip Compression broken down by character encodings

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using Gzip Compression broken down by character encodings. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
Gzip Compression is used by 46.3% of all the websites.
Gzip Compression is used by 46.2% of all the websites that use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Overall
46.3%
UTF-8
46.2%
ISO-8859-1
56.3%
Windows-1252
42.9%
Windows-1251
71.8%
EUC-JP
83.1%
EUC-KR
45.2%
Shift JIS
34.0%
GB2312
70.7%
Windows-1250
63.9%
ISO-8859-2
56.5%
Big5
37.2%
ISO-8859-15
76.3%
ISO-8859-9
35.8%
US-ASCII
43.3%
GBK
76.0%
Windows-1254
24.7%
Windows-874
72.3%
Windows-1256
37.4%
Windows-1255
43.4%
TIS-620
76.6%
ISO-8859-7
45.6%
Windows-1253
40.2%
UTF-16
65.9%
GB18030
41.5%
Windows-1257
71.5%
KOI8-R
62.9%
ISO-8859-4
4.0%
KS C 5601
53.6%
ISO-2022-JP
30.0%
UTF-7
30.5%
ISO-8859-8
43.2%
ISO-8859-5
48.3%
ISO-8859-6
16.3%
Windows-31J
37.8%
KOI8-U
60.0%
Windows-1258
31.8%
ISO-8859-16
36.8%
ANSI_X3.110-1983
27.8%
ISO-8859-13
61.5%
Big5 HKSCS
40.0%
ISO-8859-3
40.0%
W3Techs.com, 18 September 2025
Percentages of websites using Gzip Compression broken down by character encodings

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