What is a compression ratio? Parent topic

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)