Enable gzip compression for certain files?

doctorEQ
(@doctoreq)

14 years, 11 months ago

(I posted this yesterday, but I am afraid in the wrong area. Also, this post is not appearing here. Last try for now. Sorry if there is repetition)

How do I enable gzip compression for certain files? (Or, does the information below tell us gzip is not working at all?). Also, how do I test to verify that it’s working. Checked with my host and they say is it supported if I enable it.

I have ticked the box in W3TC for “Enable HTTP (gzip) compression,” saved it and done nothing else. (Am I missing something, like a gzip plugin or something?

I ran Page Speed in Chrome (scores 80) and have about 20 files displayed (samples below) after a red-buttoned message: “Enable compression – Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by 210.6KiB (73% reduction).”

I am quite new at this. I am using WP 3.1.3, Polished theme from Elegant Themes, W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.3, WordPress SEO 0.4.2, on a Windows 7 x64 machine and have shared hosting using Linux/Apache. Page Speed in Chrome is 80. Page load time: 12 seconds.

TIA

doctorEQ
—————-sample of some files mentioned by Page Speed—————

Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by 210.6KiB (73% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.4.4 could save 50.3KiB (65% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/ could save 31.5KiB (76% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-content/themes/Polished/epanel/shortcodes/shortcodes.css?ver=1.6 could save 21.8KiB (82% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-content/themes/Polished/js/jquery.cycle.all.min.js could save 20.5KiB (75% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-content/themes/Polished/style.css could save 17.8KiB (76% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-content/themes/Polished/epanel/page_templates/js/prettyphoto/jquery.prett… could save 16.3KiB (74% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-page-numbers/panther/wp-page-numbers.css could save 892B (66% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-content/themes/Polished/style-Red.css could save 481B (51% reduction).

Compressing http://www.doctoreq.com/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.js?ver=20090102 could save 374B (47% reduction).

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Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes
(@fredericktownes)

14 years, 11 months ago

The default W3TC settings enable compression, be sure that the directives for browser caching have been deployed and you will see compression being applied. Best to minify files as well for best results.

Thread Starter doctorEQ
(@doctoreq)

14 years, 11 months ago

I Googled “directives for browser caching” and at least kind of know what we’re talking about here. (Sorry, I am quite the noob). Now if I can just figure how to know if they are deployed…

Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes
(@fredericktownes)

14 years, 11 months ago

You can use a tool like http://web-sniffer.net/ to test files to see what their headers are and if they’re compressed etc.

Thread Starter doctorEQ
(@doctoreq)

14 years, 11 months ago

Thank you Frederick. I’ll search around to see if I can find information on the settings for web-sniffer and what to look for.

Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes
(@fredericktownes)

14 years, 9 months ago

Any other questions?

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