Gzip Compression On Apache And Nginx
Introduction
Compressing content before sending it over the wire not only saves bandwidth, it makes web applications faster. The combined time it takes for a web server to compress data and a browser to decompress it, is less than sending just uncompressed data through the wire. This writeup shows you how to configure both Apache and Nginx with gzip compression.
Apache
Add below snippet to your apache2.conf
or .htaccess
file.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c> # compress html, css, javascript, text, xml and fonts AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml 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 # you can also compress by file type/extension: <files *.html> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </files></IfModule>
Nginx
Gzip should already be enabled on Nginx by default. If not, open its configuration file (sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
) and make sure that the settings under the gzip section are uncommented (like in snippet below).
### Gzip Settings##gzip on;gzip_disable "msie6";gzip_vary on;gzip_proxied any;gzip_comp_level 6;gzip_buffers 16 8k;gzip_http_version 1.1;gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
Written by Lami Adabonyan
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