Server Side Brotli Compression about bestmotherfucking.website HOT 5 CLOSED

All sounds great with me folks!

To @KeenRivals point, this was absolutely an excercise in optimization. I've never heard the term "Byte count golf", but will absolutely add it to my common parlance in future.
While it's even deeper in the weeds, I first locally rewrote much of the content to increase repetition, allowing for even greater compression, but even I knew that this was too pedantic to mention seriously. haha

Thanks for your time, and the chat!

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It maybe misses the point. The point is "use [any] compression", 0 vs some compression and 0 vs better compression look the same to corporate: the defaults are a good starting point.

The website is a statement of dumb things observed on the web, pointing them out (such as no compression).

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It's the problem of many technical details, advice, that they go too in-depth and get ignored.

For example, improving auth for common users. Getting TOTP, hardware keys, or something else, messing with them is bad advice, where the user should first start using a password manager.

Yes, you can always get better, but look for the largest improvements in the current situation/problem (no compression) while not overwhelming the reader.

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While I thoroughly enjoy a game of byte count golf I think @jtagcat said it best. Back in the day (2004-2010) I used to pre-compress files to the max and use goofy Apache directives to serve what the browser was willing to take. Nowadays the gains are pretty minimal.

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You might also be interested that you can hit 2610b with "regular" gzip via 7-zip. 7z a -tgzip -mfb=258 -mpass=100 index.html.gz index.html If you use advdef from advancecomp you can hit 2604b.

This probably takes a lot more cpu time than doing it any other way if you're running on the fly, but for a static meme website it would probably be feasible.

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