Read original post at Jeff Wilcox's Blog
Please ship your next Windows Phone app or app update using this awesome GZipWebClient library by Morten Nielsen (NuGet, blog post, source) – it’s been out there since August and we should all be using this now for HTTP-heavy apps!
The next update of my app is in the works and performance is significantly improved by this library. I used both generation 1 and gen 2 devices to gather a ton of data and am loving the results. Can’t wait to submit the update to the marketplace. I’ve been seeing requests speed up 50%-80%, it’s amazing – but I should note, these are unofficial numbers, I’m just grabbing these from my app that is JSON-heavy.