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Last Updated: 2024-04-25
By default, my web application only returned uncompressed HTML. Relying on third party data ( I didn't this test myself ), I slowed down my site by 15% through omitting to zip the HTML.
Fortunately, this was easily fixed:
# application.rb
config.middleware.use Rack::Deflater
How to confirm it works? Look for the header Content-Encoding=gzip of a HTML
request in DevTools