Brotli compression support added on shared hosting

Dear customers!

We’re happy to announce that support for Brotli compression has been added on our shared hosting servers

Compression works by default. No setup is required.

Brotli is an open-source data compression algorithm developed by Jyrki Alakuijala and Zoltan Szabadka.

The Brotli compression method is based on a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman entropy coding, and 2nd-order context modeling.

It’s designed to speed up web page loading and is supported in Chromium-based Chrome browsers and in Firefox.

The web server response header now looks like this:

HTTP/200
server: nginx
date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:14:43 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
last-modified: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 07:36:36 GMT
cache-control: max-age=2592000
expires: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:14:43 GMT
content-encoding: br