HTTP Acceleration Works on Most Content Types

HTTP Acceleration works on any type of content that can be compressed. The below table shows compression ratios for different content types, providing a picture of possible bandwidth savings with HTTP Acceleration.

File Extension Content Description File Size Savings
TXT Text Documents 75% - 95%
JS JavaScript Language 45% - 75%
XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language 55% - 95%
XML Extensible Markup Language 75% - 85%
CSS Cascading Style Sheets 80% - 95%
PL/CGI PERL Script/Common Gateway Interface 65% - 85%
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor 65% - 85%
CFM ColdFusion Markup Language 65% - 85%
(X)HTML Hyper Text Markup Language 65% - 85%
ASP Active Server Pages 65% - 85%
ASPX ASP.NET 65% - 85%
BMP Bitmap Image 75% - 85%
GIF* GIF Image (Already Compressed) No Reduction
JPG* JPG Image (Already Compressed) No Reduction
SWF Adobe Flash No Reduction
MDB Microsoft Access Database 50% - 90%
XLS Microsoft Excel Document 50% - 70%
DOC Microsoft Word Document 50% - 70%

*GIF or JPEG images are virtually uncompressible. HTTP Acceleration’s compression algorithm is capable of compressing this type of content, but performance gain is negligible.

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