High-tech: www.cisco.com, www.hp.com, www.ibm.com, www.microsoft.com, www.oracle.com
Newspapers: www.latimes.com, www.nytimes.com, www.usatoday.com, www.washingtonpost.com, www.wsj.com
Web directories: www.altavista.com, www.looksmart.com, www.lycos.com, www.netscape.com, www.yahoo.com
Sports: www.espn.com, sports.yahoo.com, sportsillustrated.cnn.com, www.sportsnetwork.com, www.usatoday.com/sports/front.htm
On average, the text portion of these sites was compressed by 75 percent. Overall, compression would save 37 percent in total file size.
Note: This table is from page 412 of Chapter 18: Compressing the Web from Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization.
| Web Site Type | HTML, CSS, and JS Files Only | All Files Including Graphics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Average for 5 Web Sites) | Number of Files | Original Size | Compressed Size | Savings | Original Size | Compressed Size | Savings |
| High-Tech Company | 14 | 26,531 | 5,092 | 79% | 60,650 | 39,211 | 35% |
| Newspaper | 37 | 74,688 | 16,218 | 79% | 150,220 | 91,749 | 40% |
| Web Directory | 11 | 36,096 | 13,296 | 69% | 50,168 | 27,368 | 46% |
| Sports | 24 | 41,011 | 10,167 | 74% | 110,530 | 79,686 | 27% |
| Average | 22 | 44,582 | 11,193 | 75% | 92,892 | 59,504 | 37% |