What is the primary effect and benefit of data compression?

Data compression utilizes mathematical algorithms to restructure data files more efficiently by reducing or removing redundancy.

• The primary effect and benefit of this process is that it reduces file size and storage/transmission requirements, optimizing disk space usage and speeding up network transfer times.
• It is completely separate from security encryption protocols, it decreases rather than increases resource load over networks, and it does not transform static text files into executable code binaries.