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Bug 61443 - Apply gzip transfer encoding to ICO files from bits.wikimedia.org (favicon.ico)
Apply gzip transfer encoding to ICO files from bits.wikimedia.org (favicon.ico)
Status: PATCH_TO_REVIEW
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Apache configuration (Other open bugs)
wmf-deployment
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http://bits.wikimedia.org/favicon/wik...
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Reported: 2014-02-16 18:56 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified: 2014-02-28 16:01 UTC (History)
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Description Brion Vibber 2014-02-16 18:56:36 UTC 
Our favicon .ico files have gotten larger recently with a bump in resolution and color/alpha depth. While they look great, they've also expanded from a couple kb to for instance 15kb for Wikipedia: http://bits.wikimedia.org/favicon/wikipedia.ico

These .ico files gzip very well, however (they're either uncompressed or simple run-length encoding bitmaps, as I recall) and gzip takes that file back down to 2.5kb nicely.

Having the web server auto-gzip the .ico files might be a nice small bandwidth savings, especially on mobile networks.
Comment 1 Gerrit Notification Bot 2014-02-16 18:59:41 UTC 
Change 113687 had a related patch set uploaded by Brion VIBBER:
Work in progress: set .svg and .ico files to be compressed on bits.wikimedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/113687
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