Support » Plugin: Swift Performance Lite » GZIP Compression

  • Hello,

    Installed this plugin, but found that when doing a test against GTMetrix for example, its saying that several items are not GZIP compressed, yet, when I look at the settings, gzip compression is on. Any ideas why this would come up?

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  • Thread Starter ocbroadband

    (@ocbroadband)

    Update: If I turn off GZIP compression in the control panel, and add it myself to my .htaccess, it works fine. It appears its nested within another module in the .htaccess file, however, I’m not sure if that works in my situation.

    Thoughts?

    Plugin Contributor Fred

    (@fredawd)

    Did you enable GZIP in Swift settings? I´m not sure, as you mentioned control panel.

    May you share your .htaccess file here?

    Thread Starter ocbroadband

    (@ocbroadband)

    So, let me digress a little. I pulled all the settings out of the .htaccess file, and let swift do all the changes. With the changes swift made with gzip enabled in the swift control panel, if I run a check on gtmetrix, it says gzip isn’t enabled. If I turn off gzip in the swift control panel, and add my own gzip configuration, it then works. What I notice is different between the configurations is that the gzip configuration that swift places is in the deflate module, but is actually embedded under a sub-section of that under mod_filter. I’m by all means not a .htaccess guru, so I’m presuming this should work if that is what your output makes, but if I turn it off, and add the section as a top level section, it then is recognized by gtmetrix.

    Plugin Contributor Fred

    (@fredawd)

    To be honest, never heard of this before.
    There are so many unique server and WordPress environments running that without access it is hard to tell what exactly causes this, but If this solution works for you, then it should not be any problem.

    Thread Starter ocbroadband

    (@ocbroadband)

    Well, if you want to jump down the rabbit hole, I can set that up if it would be beneficial.. In the meantime, I’ll run the configuration output of Swift by my host(dreamhost), and see if they have any feedback vs. having it separated as I’ve done manually.

    My thought is that somehow, its not parsing it right because the compression portion is essentially contained within another directive.

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    Moderator Jan Dembowski

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