The Benefits of HTTP Acceleration

HTTP Acceleration reduces file sizes by up to 80% — and improves HTML page load times on all connection types, broadband and dial-up. What does this mean for your business and your customers?

  • A better visitor experience on your web site. Now your customers never wait more than 6 seconds for your pages to begin rendering
  • Reduce telecommunications costs. Smaller files mean fewer packets, less bandwidth, reduced transmission time and more responsive applications (e.g. AJAX)
  • Increased usage or "stickiness" of your site. Your visitors can quickly access the information and products they want, reducing your abandonment rate during checkout
  • Improve the professionalism of your organization; take advantage of the performance normally only found on robust load balancing server clusters
  • Never exceed your transfer limits, adding value to any hosting account
  • Provide richer content without compromising your visitor’s experience due to data transmission and load time

HTTP Acceleration Improves SSL Performance
SSL encrypted pages take web servers much longer to process. Recent studies indicate that web servers processing SSL pages operate at as little as seven percent of capacity — with more than 90% of users abandoning these sites due to slow page loads.

With HTTP Acceleration, your web site can significantly increase capacity and reduce response time. In fact, HTTP Acceleration can increase the number of secure transactions a site can process by 20 – 130%, making your site’s secure content faster and more scalable.

Why increase your site’s capacity through expensive hardware or bandwidth upgrades? With HTTP Acceleration you can recover the processing time lost in the encryption process by compressing content before it is sent to its final destination. This saves you money and greatly improves your visitor’s experience and potential to become a customer.

Most Browsers Support HTTP Compression
As you can see from the below list, most browsers offer native HTTP compression support:

  • Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher
  • Netscape 4.0 and higher
  • Opera 4.0 and higher
  • All Internet Explorer clones based on IE and higher (such as AOL 4.0, etc.)
  • Microsoft XML 2.0 and higher

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