I thought gzip was enabled but test says not

Hi all,

I am looking for help with enabling gzip compression with WP Supercache. Thanks in advance.

Can anyone recommend what else I can try to make WP Supercache enable gzip compression on my site?

These are the steps I have followed so far..

Selected “Compress pages so they’re served more quickly to visitors. (Recommended)” in advanced plugin settings.

Then tested with: https://base64.guru/tools/gzip-test

Which said: “Gzip is disabled and this is bad because text data should be compressed.”

So I then backed up the site, spoke to Hostgator to confirm that they support Gzip and run linux, not NGINX or IIS. They did confirm.

Then I added following code to .htaccess between # BEGIN WordPress and # END WordPress tags:

# Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

# Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent

This did not change the test result, still showing disabled.

I then looked at how to manually compress each file on the server but I’m not a fan of this plan as there are regular updates to site, so want to check with this forum what is recommended for supercache users who find this issue.

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