36 of the top 50 web sites in the world (top 50 according to alexa.com) use HTTP compression to improve the performance of their web sites - so what is holding you back?
These very high usage figures were a surprise even to us - but the message is clear - if HTTP compression scales to meet the business needs of the most popular web sites on the planet then it certainly can have an impact on your internet/intranet web site too.
The figures break down as follows:
- Top 5: 100%
- Top 10: 80%
- Top 20: 75%
- Top 30: 73%
- Top 40: 72.5%
- Top 50: 72%
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The full list follows (1 denotes compression detected):
| Number |
Site |
Compression? |
| 1 |
yahoo.com |
1 |
| 2 |
msn.com |
1 |
| 3 |
Google.com |
1 |
| 4 |
Youtube.com |
1 |
| 5 |
Myspace.com |
1 |
| 6 |
Live.com |
0 |
| 7 |
Baidu.com |
1 |
| 8 |
Orkut.com |
1 |
| 9 |
qq.com |
1 |
| 10 |
Wikipedia.org |
0 |
| 11 |
yahoo.co.jp |
0 |
| 12 |
microsoft.com |
0 |
| 13 |
sina.com.cn |
1 |
| 14 |
megaupload.com |
1 |
| 15 |
blogger.com |
1 |
| 16 |
ebay.com |
1 |
| 17 |
hi5.com |
1 |
| 18 |
rapidshare.com |
0 |
| 19 |
facebook.com |
1 |
| 20 |
google.co.uk |
1 |
| 21 |
sohu.com |
0 |
| 22 |
163.com |
1 |
| 23 |
mail.ru |
0 |
| 24 |
fotolog.net |
1 |
| 25 |
friendster.com |
1 |
| 26 |
google.de |
1 |
| 27 |
passport.net |
0 |
| 28 |
google.com.br |
1 |
| 29 |
amazon.com |
1 |
| 30 |
google.fr |
1 |
| 31 |
yahoo.com.cn |
1 |
| 32 |
bbc.co.uk |
0 |
| 33 |
taobao.com |
1 |
| 34 |
google.co.jp |
1 |
| 35 |
google.es |
1 |
| 36 |
wretch.cc |
0 |
| 37 |
imdb.com |
1 |
| 38 |
uol.com.br |
1 |
| 39 |
yandex.ru |
0 |
| 40 |
craigslist.org |
1 |
| 41 |
go.com |
0 |
| 42 |
google.pl |
1 |
| 43 |
flickr.com |
0 |
| 44 |
tom.com |
0 |
| 45 |
google.cl |
1 |
| 46 |
skyblog.com |
1 |
| 47 |
photobucket.com |
1 |
| 48 |
google.cn |
1 |
| 49 |
onet.pl |
1 |
| 50 |
google.com.mx |
1 |
If you would like to know how we generated this list then please let us know.