value of gzipping results

[Ian Smith]

It was good to see @neelance and and @shurcooL at the gophercon in Denver!

At their suggestion, I decided to see what impact gzip content encoding would have on realistic pages that were produced by gopherjs.

I tested on three real pages from a large app, with the -m option specified to gopherjs.

Compression % reported http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php

t1: 81.4%

t2: 81.0%

t3: 81.1%

These are extremely close together!  My only explanation for that is that they all use github.com/seven5/seven5 as their toolkit, so perhaps the toolkit and its dependencies dominate the compression effects.

I think, though, it's fair to say that gzip compression on the output of gopherjs is worth a factor of 5.