Performance: Compress Your Payloads

... unless the CPU is the source of your latency.

Compressing payloads requires a little more CPU, but it can save on network IO, i.e. bandwidth, which can also have cost-saving benefits if your bandwidth costs are high.

The beauty is, if you're serving content out of a HTTP server, the popular ones can handle this for you with a small amount of configuration.

See:

• HTTP compression
• nginx compression