This whiteboard video covers the basics and some advanced material on HTTP compression. We explain some of the difficulties involved with enabling compression and the best ways to resolve them.
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Sep 13
Browser cache is one of the anchor tenants of web optimization, and has been around since the early days of the web. Unfortunately, such veteran optimizations often don’t keep up with the times. The last real improvement to browser caching happened in 1999, when the cache-control header was added in HTTP 1.1. One of the many changes in the web since then is the use of JavaScript, moving from rare and minor usage in 1999 to being a dominant technology in web pages today.
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