Comments on: Speed Tips: Turn On Compression

By: Royads

Royads — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:37:27 +0000

Hey

Thanks for sharing the information. I am using the same technique on one of my website to get benefits of compression.

Header set Expires "Mon, 20 Apr 2012 23:30:00 GMT"
Header append Cache-Control "public"

I am writing this in .htaccess file in my website root. But when I am testing my website with google page speed it gives me this message.

Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by about two thirds (~53.1kB).

List of all my css and JS files, but not the images file.

So I have doubt whether it work for CSS and js or not. Because its working for my images contents.

Can any one explain.

Thanks a lot in advance.
Roy

By: Fasst

Fasst — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:36:40 +0000

very helpful speed tips bud… thanks

By: alicious

alicious — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:48:19 +0000

I normally add php|html to my match for zlib compression, any reason why you haven’t? Is deflate better than zlib for some reason. Also with javascript if you’ve got minified files I imagine it’s not going to help much (if at all).

By: AskApache

AskApache — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:13:29 +0000

Yes. You can test my site out using the http headers tool. Just put “none” in the accept-encoding field.

Though actually, I am using gzip for compression and I am actually serving both XTHML 1.1 with the application/xhtml+xml content-type, and plain text/html for microsoft browsers that can’t handle it.

I do have mod_deflate turned on for my javascript and css files though.

By: lu-blog

lu-blog — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:38:08 +0000

Will the server in this case send uncompressed content to client if the client didn’t send deflate in HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING?

By: AskApache

AskApache — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:09:08 +0000

@ Jason

You aren't using a FilesMatch but other than that I couldn't tell you, it depends on your server, configuration, and modules.

@ Prasannah

This really won't make that much of a difference to begin with but you can use the http header viewer tool by requesting directly your .css or .js file with this .htaccess compression code on and then with this code off and you should see a difference unless something on your end isn't working correctly.

By: Prasannah

Prasannah — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:25:15 +0000

I don't see any changes in the page load speed AT ALL! I used this tool (Pingdom) to test my speeds. Any thoughts?

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:31:15 +0000

Thanks for your attention: My .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
 
#12 Months
 
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, public"
 
Header unset ETag
FileETag None
 
# 2 HOURS
 
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, must-revalidate"
 
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

I am not getting an error. It is just not working with the css and js according to yslow. I was able to set a php.ini file to gzip the php. Although, I am not sure how to do the same thing for the css/js.

By: AskApache

AskApache — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:07:08 +0000

@ jason

Sounds like you don't have mod_deflate. I need more info like error messages, how you know its not working, and current .htaccess if I were going to answer.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:48:28 +0000

I am trying to add gzip compression for a friends site which is WP. I already set up compression for php files using php.ini. However, I can’t get the js|CSS to work. Any suggestions. The site is hosted with Godaddy, apache of course.