How to turn on data compression in the desktop version of Chrome
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
traffic compression on the fly is actively used in mobile browsers to reduce the volume of transferred data and speed up page loading. On desktops, this feature is not in demand, but still may be a situation when you also have to count every byte received. In this case, use special extension, which makes possible the use of traffic compressed mode and normal Chrome.
less traffic in the mobile version of Chrome is achieved due to the fact that all data is transferred via a special Google server, where they undergo a compression procedure. While the path of the traffic increases in poor connection to the Internet, this leads to a marked increase surfing speed by reducing the volume of data transmitted.
Author expansion Data Compression Proxy found a way to redirect to the server and the data compression with the normal version of Chrome. After installing the extension on the browser toolbar has a new button, click on that allows you to enable or disable data compression.
In addition, the extension settings, you can specify a list of sites whose traffic will not be compressed, and a list of addresses that will be blocked by a proxy server. Thus, copying the data here AdBlock filter, we get more and an excellent blocker of advertising.
In order to check the work of expansion, should open a special page at the browser chrome: // net-internals / # bandwidth. Here we see in the table the original page size, its size after compression and save percentage of traffic.
In conclusion to draw your attention to the fact that this extension can help only to those users who are connected to the Internet through a really weak link. If you use a broadband connection, the Data Compression Proxy either has no effect or, on the contrary, even slow down the opening pages.