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Usage of Gzip Compression as site element 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 44.9% of all the websites.
Gzip Compression is used by 44.9% of all the websites that use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Overall
44.9%
UTF-8
44.9%
ISO-8859-1
55.5%
Windows-1252
42.8%
Windows-1251
72.0%
EUC-JP
83.3%
EUC-KR
45.2%
Shift JIS
33.8%
GB2312
70.3%
Windows-1250
63.7%
ISO-8859-2
56.5%
Big5
37.5%
ISO-8859-15
75.1%
ISO-8859-9
34.1%
US-ASCII
42.7%
GBK
74.0%
Windows-1254
23.4%
Windows-874
73.5%
Windows-1256
35.2%
Windows-1255
40.8%
TIS-620
76.4%
ISO-8859-7
42.6%
Windows-1253
37.3%
UTF-16
68.8%
GB18030
35.9%
Windows-1257
71.7%
KOI8-R
62.2%
ISO-8859-4
4.3%
KS C 5601
54.5%
ISO-2022-JP
29.6%
UTF-7
31.4%
ISO-8859-8
42.7%
ISO-8859-5
44.1%
ISO-8859-6
19.5%
Windows-31J
39.0%
KOI8-U
60.7%
Windows-1258
38.1%
ISO-8859-16
35.0%
ANSI_X3.110-1983
35.3%
ISO-8859-13
66.7%
ISO-8859-3
25.0%
Big5 HKSCS
30.0%
W3Techs.com, 19 December 2025
Percentages of websites using Gzip Compression broken down by character encodings

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