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title: "Compression Efficiency"
description: "How densely your content packs meaning per token."
topic: "Technical Constraints"
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# Compression Efficiency

How densely your content packs meaning per token.

Higher is better for fitting inside an LLM's context window. Compression efficiency is hurt by boilerplate (cookie banners, nav, ads) - a clean Markdown layer strips all of that, leaving just the substance per byte.
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Source: https://geordy.ai/glossary/technical-constraints/compression-efficiency
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