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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 44.8% of all the websites that use UTF-8 as character encoding.

Overall
44.9%
UTF-8
44.8%
ISO-8859-1
55.9%
Windows-1252
44.3%
Windows-1251
72.9%
EUC-JP
83.8%
Shift JIS
34.1%
EUC-KR
46.0%
Windows-1250
63.9%
GB2312
72.2%
ISO-8859-2
56.3%
Big5
38.4%
ISO-8859-15
74.2%
US-ASCII
43.8%
ISO-8859-9
33.7%
GBK
76.9%
Windows-1254
23.6%
Windows-874
75.0%
Windows-1256
34.9%
Windows-1255
43.7%
TIS-620
78.9%
UTF-16
72.3%
ISO-8859-7
43.0%
Windows-1253
38.4%
GB18030
35.3%
Windows-1257
71.5%
KOI8-R
62.9%
ISO-8859-4
4.4%
KS C 5601
55.6%
ISO-2022-JP
30.5%
UTF-7
37.5%
ISO-8859-8
44.9%
ISO-8859-5
50.0%
Windows-31J
43.2%
ISO-8859-6
22.5%
KOI8-U
60.7%
Windows-1258
25.0%
ANSI_X3.110-1983
26.3%
ISO-8859-16
44.4%
ISO-8859-3
28.6%
ISO-8859-13
53.8%
W3Techs.com, 13 April 2026
Percentages of websites using Gzip Compression broken down by character encodings

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