Test if mod_gzip/mod_deflate is enabled from whatsmyip.org

While working on a project on mod_deflate, I have stumbled across this great link that allows you to test remotely any server if it has enabled compression (mod_gzip/mod_deflate) and also see some statistics on the bandwidth saved on the particular URL tested (this is achieved by making one request without gzip enabled and another one with gzip enabled).
I found it very handy while testing various things…

http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/

http://www.ducea.com is gzipped

Original Size: 43 K
Gzipped Size: 10 K
Data Savings: 76.74%

Tags: apache, bandwidth, links, web_server

4 Responses to “Test if mod_gzip/mod_deflate is enabled from whatsmyip.org”

1
Carlton
15th March 2007, 10:43
Thanks for this, configuring Apache to get either mod_deflate or mod_gzip working looks tricky but this confirmation of whether I have got it working or not will help a little, thanks for posting this
2
Hector Virgen
9th April 2007, 20:44
This is great because even if you have mod_deflate loaded, the test page will still report “not gzipped” if you don’t tell apache which file types to deflate.
3
Jack
22nd August 2007, 07:40
check mod_deflate
4
sajin tm
6th August 2008, 07:26
i tried to verify the output compression thru this easily. before i used telnet and it was boring.