Brotli compression results in garbled content for Google Bot

  • Resolved sagarchaudhuri

    (@sagarchaudhuri)


    3 years, 10 months ago

    We have installed Brotli on Nginx webserver and also added the Brotli PHP extension. However, the Google bot is unable to crawl the page as the content appears garbled to it. Hence, we are forced to turn off Brotli compression. How do we make it work with W3 Total Cache?

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    Hello @sagarchaudhuri

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
    W3 Total Cache offers the ability to user Brotli. So how Brotli compression is working is not dependant on W3 Total Cache. So it’s not related to W3 Total Cache, but with the Brotli compression and GoogleBot.
    Googlebot supports Brotli Compression, and everything should be working as expected.
    You should try using gzip instead and see if the issue persists.
    Also, make sure you are not using double compression like gzip and brotli together, or if brotli compression is enabled in some other way besides W3 Total cache.
    Thanks!

    Thread Starter sagarchaudhuri

    (@sagarchaudhuri)

    Thanks, Marko for your response.
    Is there anything at all in the W3TC Plugins settings that we need to enable or disable to ensure that Brotli compression is working for the website and there is on conflict.

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