Title: Compression – Content-Encoding options
Last modified: July 18, 2020

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# Compression – Content-Encoding options

 *  Resolved [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/)
 * (@eitanc)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-content-encoding-options/)
 * Hello,
 * For the header of “Compression > Content-Encoding” you show only the options 
   of:
    1. DEFLATE 2. BROTLI 3. BROTLI; DEFLATE
 * But the details page you refer to, [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Encoding](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Encoding)–
   shows more options, like gzip and more.
 * Can you look into this?

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 *  Plugin Author [Dimitar Ivanov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zinoui/)
 * (@zinoui)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-content-encoding-options/#post-13139637)
 * Apache server provides the following compression modules:
    mod_gzip (for Apache
   1.3) mod_deflate (for Apache 2.x+) mod_brotli (for Apache 2.4.26+)
 * **mod_deflate** supports **gzip** encoding, so choosing DEFLATE actually means
   that the content will be encoded with Gzip. To verify this inspect the response
   headers in any browser and search for Content-Encoding header.
 * To clarify, gzip compression is more reliable than deflate because it is deflate
   plus few headers and checksum.
 * The other directives as **compress** and **identity** that are mentioned in the
   MDN article, are not widely supported by today’s browsers and I believe that 
   are there just for comprehensive and historical reasons.
 *  Thread Starter [eitanc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eitanc/)
 * (@eitanc)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-content-encoding-options/#post-13139695)
 * Cool, thanks for the details.
 * It will be nice if you will add a comment about this at the relevant GUI page
   of the plugin.
    Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [Dimitar Ivanov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zinoui/)
 * (@zinoui)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-content-encoding-options/#post-13141321)
 * Yes, text might be improved. Thanks

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## Tags

 * [brotli](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/brotli/)
 * [deflate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/deflate/)
 * [gzip](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gzip/)

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 * Last reply from: [Dimitar Ivanov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zinoui/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-content-encoding-options/#post-13141321)
 * Status: resolved