Is GZIP compression always 1.00x on iOS Safari?

Question

I look at web traffic between iOS 9.2 Safari and our web server, and I see that all our answers are GZIP-ed, but with a coefficient of 1.00x. Therefore, we do not conserve bandwidth, and that’s all.

Does anyone know what could be happening here? Am I missing something? Or can something be misconfigured? On any desktop browser, the content is fully compressed, at least with a factor of 5.

Thanks!

Pascal.

Answer 1

Actually, this is a misinterpretation of Safari Webinspector. You can find the answer here: http://forums.tumult.com/t/turning-on-compression-enabling-gzip-on-your-server-to-speed-up-loading-times/4762/3

Safari is encoded, decoded, ported, the compression speed is not reliable (or at least it does not have the same value as in Chrome / Firefox / Edge).

This "Safari" feature was defined in 2014 here: fooobar.com/questions/724179 / ...

Without the "content length", Safari gets lost in its metrics. And there is no "content length" on Nginx with dynamic gzip enabled.

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