At 9:51 AM -0600 13/11/05, Allie Micka wrote:
1) Install mod_gzip (apache 1.3) or mod_deflate (2.0) to gzip your content. You will save 30-70% on any text file it is configured to handle.
If you're going to do that you will have to configure it to only compress .css files. If you compress all files being served you will double-compress pages generated by Drupal because they are already gzipped. That's probably why people are seeing so many bytes of .css being served compared with pages... pages are gzipped and only the amount of bytes sent is logged. But .css isn't compressed so the full file size is logged.
2) If you can't access your server's configuration and care more about bandwidth than cpu, have php handle .css files and use its gzip output handler.
There are recipes on the web for storing gzipped files in the filesystem and serving them rather than compressing the file for every hit. Save CPU as well as bandwidth :) ...R.