I’m currently working on an application to retrieve 3D data from an external service (Onshape) and cache it in the Netlify Edge using a builder to enable embedding the 3D data in external websites with great performance.
However, it seems that Netlify is serving the content without compression, resulting in 1 MB of data transfer in a case where brotli compression results in less than 200 KB file size. This size conclusion is based on using https://www.multiutil.com/text-to-brotli-compress/ to compress the file which is served for the following website (I can’t attach it directly due to being a new user in the forum):
Website: Onshape Model Viewer
Specific builder request URL that’s not compressed: https://embed-onshape.netlify.app/edgecache/d/177a60f6104ae7febf4393b6/v/7262d5efaab7231440d91a24/e/460fabf8c7fbf3104102a870/psgltf
The repo is not public at the moment, but I can see if I can get permission to post it from work. (I’m currently using my personal account to hack together a quick prototype/proof of concept, will make a work account very soon )
General request info:
Request URL: https://embed-onshape.netlify.app/edgecache/d/177a60f6104ae7febf4393b6/v/7262d5efaab7231440d91a24/e/460fabf8c7fbf3104102a870/psgltf
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 200 OK
Remote Address: 34.168.247.115:443
Referrer Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Request headers (note accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br - I know this should be br, gzip, deflate for best performance and I’ll fix that, though right now no compression is used):
GET /edgecache/d/177a60f6104ae7febf4393b6/v/7262d5efaab7231440d91a24/e/460fabf8c7fbf3104102a870/psgltf HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,ja;q=0.8,lv;q=0.7
Connection: keep-alive
DNT: 1
Host: embed-onshape.netlify.app
Referer: https://embed-onshape.netlify.app/?did=177a60f6104ae7febf4393b6&wvm=v&wvmid=7262d5efaab7231440d91a24&eid=460fabf8c7fbf3104102a870
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
sec-ch-ua: "Google Chrome";v="111", "Not(A:Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="111"
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
sec-ch-ua-platform: "macOS"
Response headers (note lack of content-encoding header):
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Age: 128293
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-Length: 1041326
Content-Type: model/gltf-binary
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:52:53 GMT
Server: Netlify
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
X-Nf-Request-Id: 01GWMV7QXTRPP0BYK2C6Y90G8E
For debugging steps, I’ve checked out some documentation and forum posts, and they seem to indicate that things should automatically be compressed if they are larger than 1 KB and there is a benefit from compression (both are true in this case - 1 MB file to 0.2 MB compressed with brotli, significant benefit from other compression formats too).
Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to debug this, and I’m very sorry if I’m missing something obvious!
Ultimately, I realize it would probably be best to store a compressed result from the builder (particularly since larger models could exceed the 6 MB limit, but assuming similar compression performance, it might be possible to 5x the “actual size” of the model that can be stored).
Thank you in advance for any help and ideas!