How to GZip content enabled in ASP.NET and GoDaddy

Enable Gzip compression in ASP.NET using web.config configuration .

Referring to the article “Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site” from YUI,  Gzip compression reduces the response time. Gzip compression generally reduces the response size by about 70% and approximate 90% of today’s internet traffic travels through browsers. After searching around for answer on how to implement gzip compression on ASP.NET application, I found the solution below is the easiest to implement.

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Add the configuration shown below in the in web.config file. This configuration setup enable gzip compression on static and on dynamic content. I have tried it on GoDaddy’s Windows Shared Hosting and it works fine.

Enable Gzip compression in ASP.NET using web.config configuration.

<system.webServer>
  <httpCompression directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\temp\IIS Temporary Compressed Files">
    <scheme name="gzip" dll="%Windir%\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll"/>
    <dynamicTypes>
      <add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true"/>
      <add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true"/>
      <add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true"/>
      <add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false"/>
    </dynamicTypes>
    <staticTypes>
      <add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true"/>
      <add mimeType="message/*" enabled="true"/>
      <add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true"/>
      <add mimeType="*/*" enabled="false"/>
    </staticTypes>
  </httpCompression>
  <urlCompression doStaticCompression="true" doDynamicCompression="true"/>
</system.webServer>

This implementation is confirmed with Firebug as shown in the snapshot taken below.

Related posts :

http://am-blog.no-ip.org/BlogEngine/post/2010/11/23/Enable-Gzip-compression-in-ASPNET-using-webconfig-configuration.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/702124/enable-iis7-gzip