Compress Content

  • funsail

    (@funsail)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Cpanel has:
    Apache 2.0 and newer allow you to compress content before sending it to the visitor’s browser. The types of content to be compressed are specified by MIME type. This feature requires Apache’s mod_deflate to function correctly.

    Should I turn this on, instead of the wp-super-cache compress?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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  • CHRCLMNKY

    (@chrclmnky)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Same question. But I tried enabling both, and I observed my websites load faster.

    ecdltf

    (@ecdltf)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    I think the point is that mod_deflate compresses on demand while WPSC’s gzip setting pre-compresses the cached (and preload-cached) files.

    So, while the cached html files (probably) would also get on-demand-compressed via the server setting, it should be faster to have them stored in already compressed form.

    BTW, you can go to http://www.webpagetest.org , it gives a very detailed report on what is compressed and what not. If it complains about uncompressed transfers you can add the file types to your .htaccess (for mod_deflate).

    Tom

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