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Compression in 10 times in super-dense mode is just an advertisement! Don't believe

The secret of super-dense mode is very simple. WebWarper tries to remove all data, that do not relate directly to the textual content, from optimized pages. Yes, the page appearance can be strongly impaired as a result. But the textual information, that users want to find at the site, will remain readable with high probability.

Which data "do not relate to the textual content"? It's not images and video only. Simple disabling images in the browser saves the traffic much less than WebWarper super-dense mode.

The service HTML code and different scripts occupy a very large part of a typical Web page. As a rule, all this is not necessary to make the textual content visible, save the page structure and provide correct behaviour of the hyperlinks. WebWarper removes all this service code. In most of cases, this code is about a half of the page (or even more). The remaining textual part is compressed by gzip method; it reduces its' volume estimately in 2 times. As all graphics was removed from the page in the beginning, so the saving is about 10 times in fine.

It is obvious that the saving can be much better on sites that are not enough qualitative: for example, due to bad optimization of images, misuse of service HTML tags or scripts.

If gzip compression does not work due to some reasons (see the question "Does WebWarper really compress my traffic?"), the super dense mode though compresses the traffic in several times. The only exceptions are very "ascetic" sites, as Google, where the saving is achieved mainly by removing graphics. But it is uncommon situation.

You can read more about super-dense mode here.

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