• Hi,

    I’ve got WP Super Cache enabled and set to compress pages. Google’s page speed analysis of various pages on my site, however, indicates that compression is not enabled.

    Not sure if WP Super Cache compresses some elements but not others, or if compression isn’t working correctly for me.

    Thanks in advance for your time,
    Dan

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  • Ben

    (@benbornschein)

    Hi Dan,

    WP Super Cache ONLY compresses the page not JavaScript, CSS or anything else. It also does not minify and merge JavaScript or CSS.

    Ben

    (@benbornschein)

    If you don’t need JavaScript and CSS minification, you can add the following code to your .htaccess

    <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom_xml
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-shockwave-flash
    
        <IfModule mod_expires.c>
            <FilesMatch "\.(js|css|ico|jpe?g|gif|png|svg)$">
                ExpiresActive on
                ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 years"
                SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
            </FilesMatch>
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>

    This code sends your JavaScript, CSS and some other files to the browser compressed

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