compression_ratio

What is a Compression Ratio?

The compression ratio is the uncompressed file size / compressed file size. The following table contains compression ratio examples.

Compression ratio examples

File size

(not compressed)

File size

(compressed)

500 KB

10 KB (ratio is 50:1)

1000 KB

10 KB (ratio is 100:1)

1001 KB

10 KB (ratio exceeds 100:1)

2000 KB

10 KB (ratio is 200:1)