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
- –
- Closest alternative
- zlib
Measured from GZIP’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit GZIP01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- 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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zlib Home Site
lossless compression library
Very close - 02
LZ4 - Extremely fast compression
Compression algorithm
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7-Zip
open-source file archiver and extractor
Very close - 04 Close
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Independent JPEG Group
C programming language library for JPEG images, from IJG
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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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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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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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libjpeg-turbo | Main / libjpeg-turbo
software library for processing JFIF images
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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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libvips
A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
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SQLite Home Page
serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)
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WebDAV Resources
Central resource site for the WebDAV community.
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sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!
Sourceware free software
Close - 15 pugixml.org No trackers
pugixml.org - Home
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MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
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Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
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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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Home | TCPDUMP & LIBPCAP
Web site of Tcpdump and Libpcap
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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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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles GZIP’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones GZIP uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy 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
Built with
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Apache HTTP Server 7/20
- nginx · not on gzip.org 5/20
- Google Search Console · not on gzip.org 5/20
- Fastly · not on gzip.org 3/20
- Google Workspace · not on gzip.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on gzip.org 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on gzip.org 2/20
- jQuery · not on gzip.org 2/20
- Cloudflare · not on gzip.org 2/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gzip.org 2/20