This is for network administrators.

Ziproxy is a free and open source application for Linux which speeds up the internet connection over a network considerably. Opera, an ever-innovative browser, had started a new turbo feature offering compression of images and text for faster page-loads on the client side, Ziproxy is very similar in usage but is for the Server.

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Many of us use wireless networks at some point of time. For those who are required to manage networks for internet access to a whole organization or institution, resolving a bottleneck here creates another there, and sometimes, you end up serving a connection which just barely works. Ziproxy is a little something to make things better.

Ziproxy, is basically a forwarding http proxy. In addition to that, it also offers :

1. Image compression(at the cost of quality).
2. GZip compression of text and html.
3. Address resolution by a well defined priority.

This increases browsing speeds by at least 100%.
Alternatively, Ziproxy can also be installed on the client to support unsupported image formats, as Ziproxy has options to deliver both JPEG 2000 and JPEG.

A detailed understanding of how the software works is given here.