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Visually Lossless HTML Compression

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The verbosity of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) remains one of its main weaknesses. This problem can be solved with the aid of HTML specialized compression algorithms. In this work, we describe a visually lossless HTML transform that, combined with generally used compression algorithms, allows to attain high compression ratios. Its core is a transform featuring substitution of words in an HTML document using a static English dictionary, effective encoding of dictionary indexes, numbers, and specific patterns.

Visually lossless compression means that the HTML document layout will be modified, but the document displayed in a browser will provide the exact fidelity with the original. The experimental results show that the proposed transform improves the HTML compression efficiency of general purpose compressors on average by 21% in the case of gzip, achieving comparable processing speed. Moreover, we show that the compression ratio of gzip can be improved by up to 32% for the price of higher memory requirements and much slower processing.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Joliot-Curie 15, 50-383, Wrocław, Poland

    Przemysław Skibiński

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  1. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster,, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, School of Engineering, University of California, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Darrell D. E. Long

  3. Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, William M. W. Mong Engineering Building, Shatin, N. T.,, Hong Kong, China

    Jeffrey Xu Yu

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Skibiński, P. (2009). Visually Lossless HTML Compression. In: Vossen, G., Long, D.D.E., Yu, J.X. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009. WISE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_23

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