🆚 Deflate vs. Gzip
- 📈 Gzip is much more popular than Deflate.
- 🌍 Gzip is more popular in all countries.
Type
About
Deflate is a lossless data compression algorithm that combines the LZ77 sliding window technique with Huffman coding to reduce data size efficiently.
It compresses data by replacing repeated byte sequences with references and encoding symbols with variable-length codes, forming the basis of formats such as 
Gzip and Zlib, typically achieving size reductions comparable to 50 to 70 percent for text-based content.
Gzip is a file compression technology based on the 🛠️ Deflate algorithm that adds headers and a checksum for data integrity while reducing the size of HTTP responses sent from servers to browsers.
It performs lossless compression of text-based resources such as 
HTML, 
CSS, 
JavaScript, and 
JSON, is supported by virtually all modern browsers and servers, and typically reduces transfer sizes by about 50 to 70 percent, improving load times and lowering bandwidth usage.
Headquarters
datatracker.ietf.org
gnu.orgCategories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Compression category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Compression category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Compression category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Compression category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Czech Republic in the Compression category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Compression category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Compression category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Compression category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Compression category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Compression category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.