```json
{
    "title": "TechCrunch: Ever heard of HTTP Compression?",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2007/01/16/techcrunch-ever-heard-of-http-compression/",
    "datePublished": "2007-01-16",
    "dateModified": "2007-01-16",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "It's always funny when somewhat tech-savvy folks purposely make their bandwidth bills higher than they need to be. Here's TechCrunch's HTTP header response. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 16 Jan…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# TechCrunch: Ever heard of HTTP Compression?

It's always funny when somewhat tech-savvy folks purposely make their bandwidth bills higher than they need to be.

Here's TechCrunch's HTTP header response.

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:02:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 PHP/5.2.0-8 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0-8
X-Pingback: http://www.techcrunch.com/xmlrpc.php
Status: 200 OK
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/spierzchala/359536964/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/spierzchala/359536964/)

[Port80 Software's Compression Checker](http://port80software.com/products/httpzip/) gives us some idea how much bandwidth Mr. Arrington, et al. could save just by activating this little feature, which comes baked into Apache 2.2.x.

**Turn. On. Mod_deflate.**

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