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IIS Gzip Compression

With the great variety of Javascript libaries like prototype and jquerry that make javscript easier to code and maintain the main issue is do we want to dish up 100k+ of javascript to users when they first hit our sites. Sure, its cached but that initial download is usually the first impression users get from a site.

One method that takes the sting out of the size of these libraries is gzip compression. From all accounts its pretty easy on apache but untill now I hadn't found a method of doing so on IIS.

This post at Mike Grushin’s blog shows the steps required to get gzip compression it up and running on IIS 6.