Title: GZIP not working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# GZIP not working

 *  Resolved [Wonderful Wanderings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wonderful-wanderings/)
 * (@wonderful-wanderings)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/)
 * Hi,
 * Yesterday I copied the code for GZIP compression and pasted it in my .htaccess
   file. Somewhat later I run some website speed tests and each test gave me the
   recommendation to enable GZIP compression, so I’m guessing it’s not working.
 * Is there any way I can find out what’s missing?
 * Thanks
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 *  Plugin Author [Raam Dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raamdev/)
 * (@raamdev)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/#post-4913098)
 * Hello,
 * That’s hard to say. It really depends what the site you used for testing is actually
   looking for. Could you provide the site you used for testing and your site URL
   so that I can run the test myself?
 *  Thread Starter [Wonderful Wanderings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wonderful-wanderings/)
 * (@wonderful-wanderings)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/#post-4913099)
 * Sure: [http://wonderfulwanderings.com](http://wonderfulwanderings.com) is my 
   site’s url and I used google’s speed test as well as quicksprout’s speed test
 *  Plugin Author [Raam Dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raamdev/)
 * (@raamdev)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/#post-4913139)
 * Hello,
 * As far as I can tell, you don’t have GZIP compression enabled, which tells me
   there might be a problem on the web server (does your server have the `mod_deflate`
   Apache extension?).
 * You should contact your web host and ask them why GZIP compression might not 
   be working.
 *  Thread Starter [Wonderful Wanderings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wonderful-wanderings/)
 * (@wonderful-wanderings)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/#post-4913140)
 * That’s strange. I’d just replied here and the comment seems go.
 * So, I’ve checked with my host and apparently I had to enable mod_deflate or something
   like that.
    I did that and they said it should be working now…
 *  Plugin Author [Raam Dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raamdev/)
 * (@raamdev)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/#post-4913141)
 * Yes, I just checked [your PageSpeed results](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwonderfulwanderings.com)
   and the GZIP sections shows that the only GZIP content that is not being compressed
   are the external URLs (which might not be compressed, as they’re coming from 
   a different server–it’s up to the remote server to serve them compressed). That
   tells me that GZIP compression is working as expected on your site. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Wonderful Wanderings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wonderful-wanderings/)
 * (@wonderful-wanderings)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/#post-4913143)
 * Thanks for checking!

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 * Last reply from: [Wonderful Wanderings](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wonderful-wanderings/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gzip-not-working/#post-4913143)
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