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		algorithmsRcool on April 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zstandard v1.4.0 But this is flatly untrue. Images and video sure, but everything from html, just, css, svg isn't compressed. In fact compression is critical to modern SPA frameworks to keep initial download times lower. Also this post has little to do with http compression. ZSTD is used it many other circumstances.

deathanatos on April 17, 2019 [–]

And for resources that don't compress well, web servers like nginx (and I presume others) support listing what mimetypes to compress, so they won't double-compress those things.

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