Title: Site becomes code
Last modified: June 11, 2020

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# Site becomes code

 *  [hadders](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hadders/)
 * (@hadders)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-becomes-code/)
 * When I activate Swift the website becomes all code.
 * [https://share.getcloudapp.com/04uYkKYj](https://share.getcloudapp.com/04uYkKYj)
 * Any ideas please?
 * Thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsite-becomes-code%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [StayForLunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stayforlunch/)
 * (@stayforlunch)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-becomes-code/#post-13581493)
 * Hi there,
    I had the same issue and found this post : [https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/59309/strange-characters-in-wordpress-website-displayed-for-visitors](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/59309/strange-characters-in-wordpress-website-displayed-for-visitors)
 * I disabled GZip compression in Swift Performance settings and this made frontend
   back to normal.

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## Tags

 * [broken site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/broken-site/)
 * [gzip](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gzip/)
 * [strange characters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/strange-characters/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [StayForLunch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stayforlunch/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-becomes-code/#post-13581493)
 * Status: not resolved