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Enabling compressing (gzip/deflate) in the Apache server will reduce the size of the response but will add more CPU cycles, I will run a stress test with various response sizes but
I wanted to ask if in terms of server load is there any suggestion on when should I turn compressing on or off?
Thank you
In most cases web servers are limited by io (be it memory, network bandwidth, database, hard drive, …), and have plenty of spare cpu cycle to use for compressing the pages before serving them, especially since this isn’t even really that much cpu intensive, while it provide a huge usability boost for your users and save you bandwidth.