Somehow, we never got round to enabling Brotli compression on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com so I am just in the final throws of deploying that.
So far in ~1 hour on our staging site, I'm seeing ~24% smaller files under Brotli (vs. gzip). 🤞this (or better) also happens on live which'll be tomorrow. #WebDev#Compression#Brotli#GZip
@sirber@tdp_org for decompression it's within the margin of error vs. gzip, both for time and power consumption.
for compression I seem to remember that it's quite a bit heavier than gzip (as much as 20x slower per kB of content, at least on the implementations that were around a few years ago) in terms of total computational load, but with the tradeoff that brotli has lower delivery latency due to the way it can stream content.
@sirber@tdp_org my favourite brotli fact is that its static dictionary feature produces such incredible compression ratios on web content (HTML, CSS, JS) that running your static content through a minifier and then gzipping it often produces larger data than simply applying brotli to non-minified content.
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