Title: Compression issue
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Compression issue

 *  [jacrac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacrac/)
 * (@jacrac)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issue/)
 * Hello, I recently had a small issue with gzip compression.
    When I activate Browser
   Cache compression, the result is great and fast (less than a 1 second of load
   on pingdom), but I get this ERR_decoding_failed error.
 * So it seems my server already has a compression. I then disabled the Browser 
   Cache option and the error disappeared, but the load is more than 3-4 seconds
   on pingdom.
 * I made some researches, and I am kind of lost between server compression, w3,
   things to modify in htacces and php.ini etc..
 * What should I do ? Let the server compress it or allow W3 ? If so, how should
   I process to let W3 compress it without the error ?
 * Thanks ! 🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [jacrac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacrac/)
 * (@jacrac)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issue/#post-6390433)
 * Hello !
    Any idea ?
 *  [Scott Hartley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/destac/)
 * (@destac)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compression-issue/#post-6390434)
 * It doesn’t matter who compresses it. Either or it will yield the same results

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