Title: Enabling Compression
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Enabling Compression

 *  [merlinbiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/merlinbiz/)
 * (@merlinbiz)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-compression/)
 * Hi all,
 * I was checking my page speed etc.. within [https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights](https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights)
 * & I got a bad red marker telling me to “Enable compression for the following 
   resources to reduce their transfer size by 175.1KiB (69% reduction)”
 * Plus on the mobile site I got:
 * Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
    Your 
   page has 6 blocking script resources and 4 blocking CSS resources. This causes
   a delay in rendering your page.
 * &
    Leverage browser caching Setting an expiry date or a maximum age in the HTTP
   headers for static resources instructs the browser to load previously downloaded
   resources from local disk rather than over the network.
 * I’ve been building websites for years but for my own marketing/affiliate reasons
   really. Now I am getting more & more into building for others & want to make 
   sure everything is Google friendly
 * Could anyone advise how I do this from within my wordpress control panel ?
 * Thankyou very much for you help in advance,
 * Richard

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-compression/#post-6519767)
 * You don’t do any of those from within the WordPress control panel. None of those
   have anything to do with WordPress.
 * Compression is something you would enable at the server level. Either .htaccess
   or your nginx.conf files.
 * Same goes for browser caching, enabling expires times and such properly is a 
   matter of getting your headers correct.
 * Javascript and CSS blockers could be fixed by adjusting the code of your themes
   or plugins to be a bit more friendly when it comes to placement of their JS and
   CSS files, but that’s a matter of writing the code, not merely changing some 
   settings.

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 * [Enable compression](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/enable-compression/)
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