The Ultimate Guide to Increase Transfer Speeds of Nginx Websites Using 'Gzip' Module | Linux Today

The Ultimate Guide to Increase Transfer Speeds of Nginx Websites Using ‘Gzip’ Module

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Ravi Saive
Sep 26, 2016

In this article we will discuss a method to increase transfer speeds by reducing the file sizes through compression. This approach brings an extra benefit in that it also reduces the amount of bandwidth used in the process, and makes it cheaper for the website owner who pays for it.

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Ravi Saive

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