We are happy to announce the support for brotli compression. Starting today, all our servers support brotli compression and by default, is enabled on all WordPress sites hosted on our platform. Another thing is we going parallel with Google after we introduced QUIC, a Google protocol just 48 hours ago. 24 days ago, Google announced they would support brotli compression for their display ads and today we are doing the same, but for WordPress. QUIC and brotli are technologies built for the future, and we support it before any other managed WordPress cloud hosting provider! What is brotli?
Brotli is a compression algorithm used for compressing your files like JavaScripts or style sheets to a smaller size (5-10%), compared to current gzip algorithm. First impressions may not sound like a huge benefit, but that is how WordPress sites are speed up, 5% here, 10% there, and so on.
Brotli is a kinda new technology, and not all browsers support it, but quick googling gave us info that all latest versions of most known browsers have brotli support, enough to make us activate it. We also can enable TLS 1.3 support, but that technology is still not supported by default in most browsers, which can
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15659/announcing-brotli-lightweight-faster-wordpress
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/announcing-brotli-lightweight-faster-wordpress/
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