Brotli
| Brotli | |
|---|---|
| Original author(s) | Jyrki Alakuijala, Zoltán Szabadka |
| Developer(s) | Jyrki Alakuijala, Eugene Kliuchnikov, Robert Obryk, Zoltán Szabadka, Lode Vandevenne |
| Initial release | 15 October 2013 |
| Stable release | 1.1.0
/ 31 August 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Portable |
| Type | Data compression |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | brotli |
Brotli is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Jyrki Alakuijala and Zoltán Szabadka. It uses a combination of the general-purpose LZ77 lossless compression algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd-order context modelling. Brotli is primarily used by web servers and content delivery networks to compress HTTP content, making internet websites load faster. A successor to gzip, it is supported by all major web browsers and has become increasingly popular, as it provides better compression than gzip.