GZIP and mod_deflate testing - useful page for testing if enabled

[madmax]

Found this incredibly useful site for testing to see if

 

a) Your browser is correctly requesting compressed pages (GZIP)

b) Whether your site is *actually* compressing the pages.

c) It Also it shows the before/after size and the compression ratio. This works for both mod_gzip and mod_deflate (I use the latter).

 

This saves a heck of a lot of faffing about with telnet. I wish I had seen this site sooner.

 

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

 

There is also an example of using PHP to compress content - e.g. for Apache/Win32 1.3.x where mod_deflate doesn't seem to be available. The main page also includes a lot of other useful tools for checking out your site.

 

There is also a regex-tester which someone was asking for recently http://www.whatsmyip.org/regexptest/

 

Might be worth pinning somewhere?