Title: Compress Content
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Compress Content

 *  [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
 * (@funsail)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compress-content/)
 * 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/)

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 *  [CHRCLMNKY](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrclmnky/)
 * (@chrclmnky)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compress-content/#post-5428557)
 * Same question. But I tried enabling both, and I observed my websites load faster.
 *  [ecdltf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecdltf/)
 * (@ecdltf)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compress-content/#post-5428558)
 * 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](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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