Checking whether gzip compression is enabled on the webserver hosting the website. When it is enabled, the specific page’s effectiveness of the compression and its actual bandwidth compression ratio are displayed.
What is GZIP compression?
GZIP is one of the data compression programs and a file format of its compressed data.
It reduces the data size of pages (HTML/ CSS/ JS) in the web server before it is sent to the website visitor’s browser. This saves a lot of traffic and makes pages load and display much faster.
Useful for
After setting the gzip compression, checking the effectiveness of it.
