Gzip compression inactive

Hi @saksham10

I hope you are doing well today.

After modifying the server configuration, the Re-check Change button can be used to check that the rules are correctly in place. Please check that in the first place.

Please ask your hosting provider does zlib.output_compression is enabled.

Please check also this: https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360047739654-How-to-enable-mod-deflate-for-PHP-files

Kind Regards,
Kris

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by Kris - WPMU DEV Support.

Too technical information. I have my domain from go daddy, hosting from aws and ssl certificate from cloudflare. where should i go to enable zlib.output_compression and also how to do it? Can you please explain in a simpler way because i am not a technical person. I am a student learning all this.

Hi @saksham10

Thank you for response and I’m sorry for some confusion here.

I checked your site and it’s all fine, you don’t really need to do anything and you can ignore the status of GZIP compression in Hummingbird.

This is why:

1. you are using CloudFlare for the site and CloudFlare already forces compression; regardless of whatever compression is or is not applied directly on your server – CloudFlare is still making sure that assets are compressed;

2. the compression used is Brotli which is a bit different algorithm than GZIP but it’s perfectly fine to be used instead of GZIP. In fact it’s getting more and more popular and in many cases it gives better results than GZIP.

Compression itself is not something Hummingbird does – it’s a server (in this case CloudFlare actually) thing and Hummingbird can only control it to some degree if allowed by the server.

But it currently is not yet supporting Brotli detection.

It doesn’t mean that there’s no compression but only that plugin is not able to recognize it. We plan to add support for that in future (though I don’t have ETA).

So all in all: site is compressed but with Brotli instead of Gzip (which is absolutely fine). Hummingbird can’t confirm that because it’s not capable of detecting Brotli compression yet but that can be safely ignored.

Kind regards,
Adam

Thank you so much for sorting this issue ??