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Dump1090 is a simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices
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Enable compression for text based resources for improved front end performance #217

Closed cqueern closed 5 years ago

cqueern commented 6 years ago

Hoping we might enable and test gzip compression support on the web server.

As Google's PageSpeed Insights shares:

All modern browsers support and automatically negotiate gzip compression for all HTTP requests. Enabling gzip compression can reduce the size of the transferred response by up to 90%, which can significantly reduce the amount of time to download the resource, reduce data usage for the client, and improve the time to first render.

Here's Developer Tools in Chrome showing opportunity to reduce unnecessary transfer of data:

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