--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
+ echo "Usage: $0 http://www.example.com/"
+ exit 1
+else
+ url=$1
+fi
+
+time wget $url -O /tmp/foo
+echo
+time wget --header="Accept-Encoding: gzip" $url -O /tmp/foo.gz
+echo
+
+orig_size=`ls -al /tmp/foo | awk '{ print $5 }'`
+comp_size=`ls -al /tmp/foo.gz | awk '{ print $5 }'`
+
+if [ $comp_size -lt $orig_size ] ; then
+ echo "OK $comp_size < $orig_size";
+else
+ echo "ERROR: no visible compression benefits"
+fi
+
+#ls -al /tmp/foo /tmp/foo.gz