Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] CSS not gzipping
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] CSS not gzipping

 *  Resolved [John Robertson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braddor/)
 * (@braddor)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/)
 * Ive got the latest install on 3.0.1 and everything seems fine but according to
   YSLOW, it says I can still gzip my CSS style sheet…even though gzip is enabled
   and according to a few compression check sites, it seems to be running fine. 
   All components are cached with APC.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  [thatruth2006](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thatruth2006/)
 * (@thatruth2006)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1608772)
 * You seemt o know a lot about W3, I am trying to get it to work on my site which
   is on a VPS running CentOS, but everytime I even activate it I get a content 
   encoding error and the site is unavailable, any ideas?
 *  [blau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blau/)
 * (@blau)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1608845)
 * braddor: perhaps yslow does not recognize .gzip as a .gz zipped file?
 *  Thread Starter [John Robertson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braddor/)
 * (@braddor)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1608860)
 * Hmm good point. But on yoast for example, he also does a full apc set up and 
   the report shows his css being zipped.
 *  Thread Starter [John Robertson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braddor/)
 * (@braddor)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1608945)
 * Problem solved. Because im using nginx, i pretty much have to tell it everything
   to do. I did have gzip enabled but i also needed to specify the types of files
   to compress, as well as the compression level and so on.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1609007)
 * I don’t condone comparing sites and make assumptions like that. Anyway nginx 
   is not officially supported yet.
 *  [monfresh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monfresh/)
 * (@monfresh)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1609108)
 * Hi. Using the “Web Developer” Firefox add-on and checking the document size, 
   I confirmed that my theme’s css and js files are not being sent compressed even
   though I have “Enable HTTP (gzip) compression” checked in all the sections of
   the Browser Cache Settings. Here are some details about my config: I am using
   build 0.9.1.3 on WordPress 3.0.4. I’m not using a CDN and I disabled CSS & JS
   Minification (because my CSS does not get applied when it is minified).
 * Can anyone help please?
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1609109)
 * Can you submit a bug submission form from the support tab of the plugin?

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-css-not-gzipping/#post-1609109)
 * Status: resolved