GZip-proxy - save on bandwidth

Unfortunately, not everyone has unlimited availability of broadband connection to the Internet. Personally, I have to go during the summer months in the network through the GPRS-modem. In addition, the speed of such a channel is considerably lower price per megabyte of GPRS-traffic is two to three times higher. In such cases it is advisable to use the service GZip-proxy. He works as a proxy server and "on the fly" compresses your traffic, thus reducing the number of megabytes downloaded.

So for me, this service is also relevant, I potestit it a bit. To start, I downloaded a book lib.ru. When the amount of books in 2 megabytes, my counter showed - 700 KB. Saving almost tripled. Good result. However, there are nuances. As the pictures, video and audio files are already compressed, they are passed as is, and is subject to compression only text information. So, a good effect can be achieved by avoiding downloading graphic and audio information. In addition, it makes sense to configure through gzip-proxy your e-mail client.

The site, after login, the user is available statistics: how he downloaded, as has been compressed, and so on. True to me personally in the statistics other than zero, nothing shows up, apparently they have something went wrong. In general, the site looks as if it was developed 10 years ago. But motorists say it does not affect the speed.

But what affects the speed, is the fact that for some unknown reasons, some sites through gzip-proxy does not open. This happens very rarely, but the fact remains. For example, I can not get on "In contact with".

Despite some shortcomings, I gzip-proxy left quite a positive impression. Although the service is paid (2.7 dollars a month), but my work on the web, received from him the savings is more than covers the cost.