Port80 Surveys HTTP Compression on the Top 1000 Corporations' Web Sites
Since July 2003, Port80 Software conducts periodic surveys of Fortune 1000 corporations' Web sites to determine their use of HTTP compression for Web server acceleration and WAN optimization.
July 2007 marks the return of the Port80 Top 1000 HTTP Compression Survey -- updated from the new 2007 Fortune 1000 list of companies' Web sites. Compression is one of the best supported and yet underutilized technologies available on the Web today. By using the deflate and gzip data compression algorithms, HTTP compression optimizes files for delivery across the Web, leading to faster page loads and reduced bandwidth costs -- a key WAN performance optimization.
Review our current survey results for this month and historic Fortune 1000 compression deployment, test your own site's compression now, calculate your possible bandwidth savings, and look up a Top 1000 full compression analysis below:
HTTP Compression Use Nearly Doubles in Past 10 Months, Adding Speed and Saving Millions on Bandwidth For Fortune 1000 Web Sites
[ Top 1000 HTTP Compression Survey, July 2007 ]
Fortune 1000 Compression Accelerates
As Web 2.0, Ajax Complexities and Bandwidth Needs Increase...
[ Top 1000 HTTP Compression Survey, 2003-2007 ]
Compression technology continue to gain acceptance among the Fortune 1000 and leading Web sites:
- 275 Fortune 1000 sites use some form of HTTP compression, an increase of 25.6% overall since July 2003 and this survey's inception.
- While only 275 of the Fortune 1000 realize the benefits of HTTP compression, among these compressed sites you will find eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo!. For the Internet's most successful companies, HTTP compression is a business requirement and a best practice.
- The Top 1000 could save a little over 20% percent in bandwidth bills (millions of dollars annually), speeding up their home pages and sending around 45 KB less on average with every home page served -- if they used compression tools like httpZip, IIS 6.0 built-in compression with ZipEnable for Windows Server 2003, and others for Netscape and Apache.
Compression Check:
Evaluate HTTP compression on your own server or favorite site
Smaller file sizes mean faster transfer, which translates into faster pages for your bandwidth-constrained customers and employees -- and more efficient Web servers. Test your Web server's compression performance in real-time:
Project your bandwidth savings with HTTP compression
HTTP compression can dramatically lower your bandwidth bills. Just enter your estimated savings (from the Compression Check tool above) and billing model, and calculate your annual savings and time to return on investment:
Check out HTTP compression on a leading corporation's site
Select a company below to view a real-time analysis of a Top 1000's compression status and bandwidth savings for their corporate Web site.
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