Usage statistics of Compression for websites

This report shows the usage statistics of Compression as site element on the web. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys. Our reports are updated daily.

Compression is used by 80.4% of all the websites.

Subcategories of Compression

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various subcategories of Compression.

How to read the diagram:
Gzip Compression is used by 99.0% of all the websites who use Compression

Gzip Compression

99.0%

Deflate Compression

1.0%

W3Techs.com, 7 December 2019

Percentages of websites using various subcategories of Compression
Note: a website may use more than one subcategory of Compression

Historical trend

This diagram shows the historical trend in the percentage of websites using Compression.
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Market position

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Market position of Compression

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Technology Brief
Compression
Category: Site Elements
Compression of web pages reduces the size of the files that are transferred over the internet.
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