Title: CSS Compression
Last modified: August 17, 2017

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# CSS Compression

 *  Resolved [janqed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janqed/)
 * (@janqed)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-compression/)
 * Autooptimize did wonders on my website, the only issue now is the CSS file it
   created is not optimized per manageWP so the grade actually got worse. How can
   I resolve this file and compress it?
 * Enable compression for the following resources to reduce their transfer size 
   by 1.1MiB (86% reduction).
 * Compressing [https://counselbuddy.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_4c7c3dd0792520ade2be76a8b2404aa6.css](https://counselbuddy.com/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/css/autoptimize_4c7c3dd0792520ade2be76a8b2404aa6.css)
   could save 1.1MiB (86% reduction).
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [janqed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janqed/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcss-compression%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-compression/#post-9418981)
 * compression is normally done on webserver level (AO tries to force Apache to 
   compress using `wp-content/cache/autoptimize/.htaccess`), but if that doesn’t
   work you could try disabling the “serve as static file”-option, in which case
   the optimized JS/ CSS will be served as PHP-files and the PHP-code should take
   care of the compression [@janqed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janqed/).
 * that being said; if you can reduce transfer size by 1.1MIB, then you sure have
   a huge amount of CSS and you could benefit from going “inline & defer” (cfr info
   in [the FAQ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/#faq)).
 * hope this helps,
    frank

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