Web site should be transferring data compressed

[huonw]

Our search doc indexes are huge JS files, which are very amenable to compression.

We're failing pagespeed because of it: http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.rust-lang.org%2Fdoc%2Fmaster%2Fstd%2Findex.html

[lifthrasiir]

Some quick comparison:

$ curl -s http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/search-index.js | wc -c
501867
$ curl -s http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/std/search-index.js | gzip -c -9 - | wc -c
84310

We can also consider adjusting the index format to exploit deflate/LZ77 algorithms if we want to optimize that further. (Unlikely, but just a possibility)

[huonw]

It appears that gzipping manually may be the only way to do this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5447158/1256624

:(

[thestinger]

http://www.nomitor.com/blog/2010/11/10/gzip-support-for-amazon-web-services-cloudfront/ is linked there with a sane workaround

[ehsanul]

Doesn't seem like rust-lang.org is using cloudfront, but rather just hosts on S3? In which case, that may not work.

The best solution might be the answer further down, since it won't break on safari and mobile browsers and such.

[alexcrichton]

Closing, this is now done through the new official domain, http://doc.rust-lang.org/