Compress Content

Same question. But I tried enabling both, and I observed my websites load faster.

I think the point is that mod_deflate compresses on demand while WPSC’s gzip setting pre-compresses the cached (and preload-cached) files.

So, while the cached html files (probably) would also get on-demand-compressed via the server setting, it should be faster to have them stored in already compressed form.

BTW, you can go to https://www.webpagetest.org , it gives a very detailed report on what is compressed and what not. If it complains about uncompressed transfers you can add the file types to your .htaccess (for mod_deflate).

Tom