I run a very popular website on a fairly nice server, the problem is that while sql times are low, it seems to take a while for some images to be sent. Will not enable mod_gzip give me back some of that extra speed, in return for a bit more bandwidth usage?

Most of my users are bandwidth users, I max out my cable connection on my downloads, but some (rather small) images take a while to load..

Originally posted by Aea
I run a very popular website on a fairly nice server, the problem is that while sql times are low, it seems to take a while for some images to be sent. Will not enable mod_gzip give me back some of that extra speed, in return for a bit more bandwidth usage?


Not really. Images, as a rule, don't zip well, and it's generally considered a waste of CPU power to try and compress them with mod_gzip or ob_gzhandler or similar. Optimizing them in Photoshop or your image-editing tool of choice, or using less of them, would be the way to go.

Also, the point of compression (generally) is to speed up page load times by reducing the volume of data sent, thus *lowering* bandwidth usage, not increasing it. It can put a small extra load on the CPU, though.

Yep, I know it reduces bandwidth usage, that's why it's gziped, but it also gzips images and those take a long time to load, and I mean everything else on the page loades, even big flash animations, and then the images come in :/

Hey Aea, try this: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=303362