Hi @19kingscollege80buddo
I hope you’re well today!
It’s a long shot, but after trying to respond to your request with a screenshot without success, I instead replied through www.ads-software.com.
I’m assuming you tried to respond to the e-mail you received about Nebu’s post (the one above), right?
Note please that those e-mails are only notifications and you can’t really post response simply by responding to e-mail. They are only notifications to let you know that your message has been responded – and that’s it. PLease note that this is out of our control as it’s not our forum (we are only users of it, just like you) and we have no impact on that.
Whenever you wish to respond, you need to do it right here at www.ads-software.com forum, directly in your topic.
I have consulted with my host, Bluehost, and they assured me that the recommendation as suggested by Hummingbird had been implemented.
I can see that GZIP compression is actually working on your site. This can be confirmed in two ways:
1. you can open browser’s webdeveloper tools and there in “Network” tab check HTTP headers for main URL and then for JS and CSS URLs
2. or you can run those URLs through this page
https://www.giftofspeed.com/gzip-test
Both confirm that GZIP is enabled.
There is, however, exception – external assets. External assets (assets fetched from 3rd-party URLs) – they may be not compressed, GZIP compressed or Brotli compressed but Hummingbird cannot change it. Compression is a “server-side” thing and neither plugin nor your host can affect this; for 3rd-party resources it’s up to those resources providers whether to compress them (and if yes, with what algorithm) or not
But other than that, I see HTML/JS/CSS resources are already Gzip compressed.
I’m not sure what made you suspect they are not compressed but I’m guessing it’s a message on the “Hummingbird -> Gzip compression” page, right?
If yes, there are some cases when Hummingbird cannot fully detect compression even if it is applied. First thing to do would be to simply use “Re-check status” button on that page to see if it will update status. If it doesn’t, it would most likely be affected by some firewall or other aspect of site/server configuration that disallows Hummingbird to make “self-requests” to check compression.
But despite that, even if it says GZIP compression is not enabled, you can ignore it. I can confirm that compression is working currently for the site.
Kind regards,
Adam
