Brotli — is the new data compression algorithm from Google and in September a stable version were released. Here is four things you should know about algorithm which could replace gzip.
• In some tests it is 20% more effective than gzip on speed and coefficient of compression.
• There are libs for all modern web-servers. Here is, for nginx for example.
• Since September brotli is supported by 70% market share browsers including last Safari.
• Cloudflare recommends use gzip for small files аnd brotli for bigger ones (but article is quite old).
#devops #nginx
• In some tests it is 20% more effective than gzip on speed and coefficient of compression.
• There are libs for all modern web-servers. Here is, for nginx for example.
• Since September brotli is supported by 70% market share browsers including last Safari.
• Cloudflare recommends use gzip for small files аnd brotli for bigger ones (but article is quite old).
#devops #nginx