The HTML and XML languages have a language based overhead. This quantitative study proposed several encoding methods for the contents of HTML and XML files. The files were parsed for similar words and subsequently encoded with shorter character representations. A Web server and Web client were developed to test the hypothesis that the encoding of HTML and XML files using these methods prior to transmission by the server and decoding prior to rendering by the client would might produce a reduction in overall transmission time when compared with files that were not encoded. Presence of Zip compression and conversion to Binary using Huffman Compression were also considered. The results suggested that while there was a reduction in the size of the files after encoding, no reduction in transmission time was conclusively found. The data suggest that there is an endemic cause, and further experimentation is suggested to determine find the source.