GZIP not compressing even turn on

  • I have installed W3 Total Cache plugin with all GZIP switched on for browser cache. I also have cloudfare free version. The minify settings is only set up in W3TC.
    However in testing with Pingdom and google speed test, I keep getting the recommendation to compress my site. I use this link below https://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php to test and its says there is no compression on my site. All these testing shows that the GZIP compression did not work.

    Do I need to installed the GZIP plugin as well for this to work or should it work as per setting for the browser cache?

    Pingdom test showing my site is slower than 82% of all tested website. Please can someone advise me what can I do to improve?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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  • You can enable GZIP compression by adding some lines to your htaccess file and this would require the use of a FTP Client such as FileZilla.

    You can only turn on GZIP compression if your Apache server has either mod_gzip or mod_deflate installed.

    Some shared hosting companies like 1-and-1 don’t enable these perhaps because of the additional CPU load of compressing files each time they are served. You might want to lobby your hosting provider to start enabling mod_gzip or mod_deflate because of the huge difference it makes in file transmission time esp to e.g. 3G mobile phones.

    I have suggested in a previous support question that W3 TC supports these by using the php gzip capabilities to cache a gzipped copy of a file and serve it – which would actually be better than mod_gzip because it would not have the same CPU penalty because it would gzip only once and then serve the pre-gzipped file (which being smaller would actually be marginally cheaper on CPU).

    However, I have not yet had a response to this and since it is an enhancement, I would not hold my breath on it.

    Thread Starter Hotham

    (@hotham)

    Thanks guys for your replies. Sorry for late response as I had leg injury last week.

    Had managed to bring the site up to better speed as hosting provider provides compression ability now.

    I still have render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content message, Minify JavaScript, Minify CSS and server response time above 0.31 seconds. So I will look into these to see how I an improve.

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