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What is the difference between static and dynamic compression on IIS 6.0?

April 26, 2017compression Dynamic IIS static

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What is the difference between static and dynamic compression on IIS 6.0?

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Static compression refers to the compression encoding of any file that does not require server-side processing like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files. By default, IIS 6.0 is set to compress static files with these file extensions when static compression is enabled: .htm, .html, and .txt. Dynamic compression refers to the compression encoding of any file that does require server-side processing in a scripting environment like ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP. By default, IIS 6.0 is set to compress dynamic files with these file extensions when dynamic compression is enabled: .asp, .dll, and .exe. The ZipEnable Configuration Wizard provides additional static and dynamic file extension options that can be selected when the tool is run. These file extensions are not part of the default set of extensions in IIS 6.0 compression, but based on Port80 Software’s experience, they are good candidates for compression. The wizard provides .js and .css as extra file extension options for static compression, an