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Hi experts,<br />
I'm trying to improve the performance of my web pages and I've been reading about something called gzip?<br />
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I am working on a Windows machine and Dreamweaver. Is the idea that Once I finish my JS files, I can compress them with GZip *(presumably this will make them unreadable but very small), and then the browser automatically detects a GZip file and decompresses it?<br />
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Is this correct? Does it actually speed things up, or does the decompression time cancel out the size savings?<br />
<br />
Please advise.
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Hi experts,
I'm trying to improve the performance of my web pages and I've been reading about something called gzip?

I am working on a Windows machine and Dreamweaver. Is the idea that Once I finish my JS files, I can compress them with GZip *(presumably this will make them unreadable but very small), and then the browser automatically detects a GZip file and decompresses it?

Is this correct? Does it actually speed things up, or does the decompression time cancel out the size savings?

Please advise.

Using GZip to compress javascript files?

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