RE: Header Stats

[RUELLAN Herve <[e-mail]>]

James,

This is interesting and useful information.

A few suggestions:
- Sorting the header names would help finding them.
- Possibly also sorting the header values, either alphabetically or by frequency.
- The "ratio" for encoded values seems to be the percentage of size reduction, maybe rename the line.
- Adding the explanations from your email directly in the files would help understanding them.

Hervé.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James M Snell [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: mercredi 23 janvier 2013 05:34
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Header Stats
> 
> Ok.. I have updated the calculations to show:
> 
>   1. General variability of header values. The lower the number, the more
> redundant the value tends to be.
>   2. A frequency distribution of specific values per header. This is rather
> verbose but extremely informative
>   3. For date and numeric header values, comparison values between the
> text-value and optimized binary encoding value.
>   4. A summation of the total bytes saved by using the optimized binary
> encoding for dates and numeric headers.
> 
> 
> TODO:
> 
> 
>   - Implement experimental Set-Cookie, Cookie and Cache-Control headers
> to see the difference for binary encoding
>   - Properly handle null-separated value lists
> 
> 
> If there are other interesting calculations you'd like to see, let me know...
> 
> 
> The updated output is here: https://github.com/jasnell/compression-
> test/tree/master/counts
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:24 PM, James M Snell <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	I've started working on generating stats for individual headers within
> messages. Rather than take up too much space here on the list for the
> results, I am keeping the results in my github fork [1] of the compression-test
> code and will be posting summaries of the results periodically on my personal
> blog [2]. I will be putting together a summary of my findings together in time
> for the interim meeting next week. Unfortunately, however, I will not be
> able to attend the meeting.
> 
> 
> 	[1] https://github.com/jasnell/compression-
> test/blob/master/counts/
> 	[2] http://chmod777self.blogspot.com/2013/01/http-20-header-
> stats.html
> 
> 
> 
> 	- James
>