Content-Encoding

HTTP response header

The type of encoding used on the data

Header usage statistics

Content-Encoding response header information and usage statistics.
Websites using header Content-Encoding14,055,790
Percentage of websites that use Content-Encoding header24.48%
Total discovered header values58
Header uses directivesYes
Header values are unique or randomNo
Most popular in the country United States

Content-Encoding directives (5 total)

  • br
  • compress
  • deflate
  • gzip
  • identity

Content-Encoding Directives

Content-Encoding directives value information and usage statistics
DirectiveShareWebsites countUnique Values
br99.95%14,049,1041
identityless than 0.1%1,3791
compressless than 0.1%871
gzipless than 0.1%671
deflateless than 0.1%61

Websites utilizing Content-Encoding

List of websites that use Content-Encoding header
DomainCountryRankContacts
facebook.com United States2
google.com United States3
wordpress.org United States4
youtube.com United States6
instagram.com United States9
gmpg.org Canada10
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Common header values

List of top common Content-Encoding header values
Header valueValue prevalence
br99%
none0%
identity0%
UTF-80%
aws-chunked0%
iso-8859-10%
x-gzip0%
identity, compress0%
gzip,gzip0%
compress0%
gzip, gzip0%
utf80%
8-bit0%
plainbinary0%
(with0%
binary0%
base640%
text0%
none, true0%
deflate,deflate0%