gzip.org

GZIP

Who runs GZIP, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest data compression software alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
zlib

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs GZIP

GZIP gzip.org

Wikidata: file format

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What GZIP tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 2 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on GZIP’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to GZIP

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GZIP, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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  1. 01
    zlib zlib.net Top 10K No trackers

    zlib Home Site

    lossless compression library

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  2. 02
    LZ4 lz4.org English No trackers

    LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

    Compression algorithm

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  3. 03
    7-Zip 7-zip.org Top 10K No trackers

    7-Zip

    open-source file archiver and extractor

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  4. 04
    libpng.org Top 10K No trackers

    libpng.org: top level

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  5. 05
    ijg.org Top 10K No trackers

    Independent JPEG Group

    C programming language library for JPEG images, from IJG

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  6. 06
    graphicsmagick.org English No trackers

    GraphicsMagick Image Processing System

    GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in any of the more popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, and WebP. With GraphicsMagick you can create GIFs dynamically making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work in the same or differing image format.

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  7. 07
    WinZip winzip.com English 2 trackers

    WinZip for Windows: Zip, unzip, and protect your files

    WinZip is the world's leading zip utility for file compression, encryption, sharing, and backup. Save time and space, zip & unzip files quickly.

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  8. 08
    bandizip.com English 1 tracker

    Bandizip · Free zip, 7z, unzip, unrar Archiver · Fast and easy

    Free, fast archive tool for Windows. Zip, unzip & extract ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ALZ, EGG and more. Download Bandizip for free.

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  9. 09
    libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo.org No trackers

    libjpeg-turbo | Main / libjpeg-turbo

    software library for processing JFIF images

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  10. 10
    PCRE pcre.org Top 10K English No trackers

    PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

    The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API.

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  11. 11
    libvips.org English No trackers

    libvips

    A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

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  12. 12
    sqlite.org Top 10K No trackers

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

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  13. 13
    WebDAV webdav.org Top 10K No trackers

    WebDAV Resources

    Central resource site for the WebDAV community.

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  14. 14
    Sourceware sourceware.org English No trackers

    sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!

    Sourceware free software

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  15. 15
    pugixml.org No trackers

    pugixml.org - Home

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  16. 16
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

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  17. 17
    JSDoc jsdoc.app English No trackers

    Use JSDoc: Index

    Official documentation for JSDoc.

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  18. 18
    Swift swift.org English No trackers

    Swift Programming Language

    Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

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  19. 19
    tcpdump tcpdump.org English No trackers

    Home | TCPDUMP & LIBPCAP

    Web site of Tcpdump and Libpcap

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  20. 20
    Sitemaps sitemaps.org Top 10K No trackers

    sitemaps.org - Home

    The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what GZIP adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 1 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
34 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to GZIP’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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