These settings reduce the bytes your configuration sends. Smaller payloads mean less network
overhead and a faster experience.

brotli

Recommended.

{
  "name": "brotli",
  "options": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

Lets edge servers cache and serve Brotli-compressed assets. Brotli compresses significantly better
than Gzip, so page load times and bandwidth both drop for clients that support it. When a browser
sends Accept-Encoding: br, Akamai serves the Brotli version; when it doesn't, Akamai falls back to
Gzip or uncompressed automatically — which is why this is safe to leave on.

• Resources need to be Brotli-compressed on your origin.
• It covers more content types than Resource Optimizer or Last Mile Acceleration, and can compress
  non-cacheable resources.
• If a Gzip version of a file is already cached, Akamai keeps serving it until its TTL expires. The
  Brotli version populates after that.

gzipResponseTemplate

{
  "name": "gzipResponseTemplate",
  "options": {
    "gzipCompression": "ALWAYS",
    "contentType": [
      "application/javascript",
      "application/*javascript*",
      "application/json",
      "text/html*",
      "text/css*",
      "..."
    ]
  }
}

Optimizes the last mile between the edge and the browser. The edge checks for Accept-Encoding: gzip before compressing, so clients that can't decompress aren't affected.

The full list is in the complete template below.