There have been numerous discussions about the amount of bandwidth that IMail Web
Messaging consumes. A great deal can be done to limit bandwidth consumption and speed
up page load times if IpSwitch would build functionality to do http1.1 stream
compression on-the-fly. This is a very common thing with modern web servers, and
should be used by everyone.
For example, the size of the iMail login page (v8.12) is 26,335 bytes. Compressed on
the fly, this could be reduced 71.36% to 7,543 bytes. This compression ratio is
actually on the low end-- many of our pages see reductions > 90%.
Not only would this help cut back immensely on bandwidth costs for iMail customers,
but it would also significantly speed up WebMail responsiveness for users on slow
internet connections (especially dialup). Those with faster connections would
perceive less benefit, but even those users would get pages faster if there was
general internet/network congestion between their PC and the iMail server.
This is just a strong recommendation to IpSwitch-- currently, I don't think there's
any way for their little custom iMail web server to do this.
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