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Brotli and Gzip: Enable Compression at the Edge

Uncompressed HTML is 70%+ waste on the wire. Brotli is the modern default; gzip is the universal floor. Either turns a 100KB page into ~20KB on the wire.

How to fix it

  1. Enable Brotli in your CDN (Cloudflare: Speed → Optimization → Brotli on).
  2. Verify with curl -H 'Accept-Encoding: br' -I and read content-encoding.
  3. Cache the compressed variant at the edge — compress once, serve millions.
  4. Don't double-compress already-compressed images/videos.

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