Regarding decompression times, I think it's much more important to save transferred network data than to prioritize quicker decompression.
HTTP request times have a long tail; they can get really slow for the many, many people limited to slow connections. Decompression times are going to be much more consistent. Our aim here should be to improve the 10% slowest requests, and you do that by optimizing the actual transfer.
HTTP request times have a long tail; they can get really slow for the many, many people limited to slow connections. Decompression times are going to be much more consistent. Our aim here should be to improve the 10% slowest requests, and you do that by optimizing the actual transfer.