[xg15]

Unless compression cannot be used: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049898

Also, there are still cases where compression cannot be applied, e.g. if a script naively queries innerHTML. (This wouldn't affect loading time but it could inflate the page's RAM unnecessarily)

[paulddraper]

Sure, but I'd consider those edge cases to be situations where the treatment is worse than the disease

[pixl97]

HTTPS is an edge condition? Over 50 percent of the web is now transferred via HTTPS.

[paulddraper]

It's not HTTPS. It's HTTPS cross-site requests with secret cookies.