# Low bandwidth users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-users/34620>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [October 16, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-users/34620 "2015-10-16T23:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-bandwidth-users/34620/2 "2015-10-17T00:21:27Z")

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> [@ky\_metro](#):
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> Measuring from my own site on a text-only topic, no cache, I’m getting 4.3 MB

Is that without any form of built in HTTP gzip compression? That does not seem correct to me at all. Remember text compresses at 70-80% typically.

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