why set the compress applet communication and or the compress HTML fields to true

Good Afternoon,

I was wondering the advantages and disadvantages of setting the Compress Applet Communication and the Compress HTML fields to TRUE.  I was reviewing the Admin Console page in our current version of P6, 8.2.1.33.  I noticed that the P6 Web configuration setting for these two were false.  We are experiencing slowness in the P6 Login web page, which is caused by the version of Java (1.6.0_31) we’re running and the fact it wants to do a certificate revocation check.  and the loading of the EPS tab under the Projects tab.  I did notice that under our two Job Services jobs that both were set to TRUE.