https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61443
Bug ID: 61443
Summary: Apply gzip transfer encoding to ICO files from
bits.wikimedia.org (favicon.ico)
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
URL: http://bits.wikimedia.org/favicon/wikipedia.ico
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Apache configuration
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: br...@wikimedia.org
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
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.
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