The Web is Getting Smaller in Size
The World Wide Web is indeed getting smaller and smaller day by day. I know that any of you aren't ready to agree. Indeed, you would say that I started talking nonsense. Unfortunately (or fortunately) it is the truth. The web is getting smaller in size, I mean in byte size.
The number of web pages and web sites is an ever increasing number, infact an exploding number. So you would say that the web is growing and thus getting bigger in size. Well, I am rambling about the various technologies which are being innovated and those which are already in action which exists to reduce the size of web pages smaller and data transfers lesser. Some of the popular ones include web page compression, caching, proxying, etc, etc...
Compression, for instance, is one of the most wide-spread and fastest growing technologies which contributes to making my statement valid. Compressing web pages largely reduces the size of data transferred between server and clients. One of the most common methods of web page compression include gzip. Almost all of today's servers and browsers support gzip compression. Some of the browsers used in mobile phones also supports gzip compression. Gzipping a web page effectively reduces its size by over 50% in most cases and even over 80% in some not-so-rare cases. Gzip is being adopted by an increasing number of websites, day by day.
There are some other forms of compression technologies like sdch which has even higher hopes. There are also other technologies such as minifying JavaScripts, CSS and HTML, caching web pages in browsers, caching proxies and ISPs. Some ISPs even implemented gzipping content within their local networks.
All these combined, contributes to my statement that the web is getting smaller in size, day by day. It is a totally winning concept for a healthier and ever growing web.
Posted by Ameer at Friday, February 05, 2010
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I would agree that the web is decreasing in size. The compression technology is getting better and better and honestly, I don't think that broadband in the US is really improving by leaps and bounds so naturally, compression would take part in speeding up the web.
I agree the world is getting smaller.. One of the things that I find so fascinating about the web is how similar ideas and opinions are often shared by many geographically dispersed individuals.
Thanks for the topic though!!
Many web sites now average smaller. Compression also helps us that have a slow Internet connection. That is good, so We could read more information from internet
The world is getting smaller because all we see now are our computers. There's a big world out there!
yeah don Edmund I totaly agree with you..! if we close our laptops and turn our stupid cell phone off we would see that there s still a big unexplored worl out there, although internet is trying to spot all the corners of this planet earth..
I was worried / wondering what you meant from the title.. I guess compression and optimisations are making many sites smaller to load, however video streaming and high resolution images on websites are also more common. I agree compression is one of the fastest growing technologies on the net right now. I.e: Google page speed up.