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Better compression of web pages
Appetizers
Take a Look
Once you have finally set up everything, you can check the results at the command line armed with curl. The test checks whether the web server responds to the Accept-Encoding: br request with Content-Encoding: br
as desired. Figure 1 shows a successful test with my website.
Figure 1: The author's website supports Brotli, as a server request with curl reveals.
Infos
- Zopfli: https://github.com/google/zopfli
- Brotli: https://github.com/google/brotli
- Browser support for Brotli: http://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli
- Nginx: https://www.nginx.com
- Debian: https://www.debian.org
- Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org
- "Let's Encrypt" by Ferdinand Thommes, Linux Pro Magazine , issue 184, March 2016, pg. 40, http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2016/184/Let-s-Encrypt
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