ProWorkflow is lightning fast thanks to HTTP Compression!

We have recently deployed ZipEnable to all our trial and subscription servers and have seen a dramatic increase in response and page loading times as a result.

ZipEnable, developed by San Diego company Port80 Software, harnesses the native power of HTTP compression already build into IIS 6 and provides an easy management interface which allows you to granularly manage compression at the global, site, directory, and file levels — all without writing a single line of code or editing the IIS metabase.

ZipEnable also provides vital, real-time, updated browser compatibility checking to make sure that browsers that can handle decompression, and CPU roll-off to keep compression CPU cycles within your comfort zone.

The chart below shows the average savings ZipEnable has made to the size of data getting sent back to the browser and the subsequent impact the compression has on page delivery times.

Thanks to Craig Walker, Chief Technology Officer at Xero, for the knowledge he shared in his presentation: Client Side Performance Sucks… it gave us the inspiration to make this happen.