Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 01/24/06 15:57

JohnSouth104@gmail.com wrote:

> I want to try an HTML compression program to reduce the download time
> for my website pages. Can someone recommend one that can deal with
> some fairly complex pages including plenty of javascript.

To clarify the other answers:

'Compression' is something done by the server with any resource that it
sends out, not just with your HTML documents - if it is properly configured
(e.g. mod_gzip for apache) and the client 'tells' the server that it
supports compression.

You might (also) want to 'optimize' your HTML documents. The probably most
effective way is to avoid redundant elements, move presentational stuff to
CSS files and so on. But if you have existing documents, which where not
built with using these concepts from the beginning, this will mean that
you'll have to rebuild your whole site from scratch.
The best you (or a tool) could do, is to remove unnecessary whitespace from
documents, but this would not gain much.

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/

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