Gzip compression enabled but not working

Not sure if gtmetrix added accept-encoding header.

When you visit by your browser, did you get a gzip response? Check it from here:

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Also, can you give an url for us to test it?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Hai Zheng?.

Another thing to be aware is your Max Static File Size is too small. Any size that is larger than 2k won’t be compressed. I believe your web pages are larger than 2k usually.

I don’t get it well.
Is it Max Static File Size > 2 or Max Static File Size < 2 that won’t be compressed ?

I have checked the headers on my site pages, and gzip is enabled:

Request URL:https://my-website.com/
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200 OK
Remote Address:192.168.0.53:80
Response Headers
view source
Accept-Ranges:bytes
Cache-Control:no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Connection:close
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:34:30 GMT
Expires:Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Link:<https://my-website.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
Server:LiteSpeed
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
Vary:Accept-Encoding,Accept-Encoding,Accept-Encoding
X-LiteSpeed-Cache-Control:no-cache

Maybe the reason why gtmetrix is not able to detect the compression, has to do with the gzip compression settings on my LS-powered server.

What would be a typical Max Static File Size and Min Static File Size setting combination?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by nceebob.

You can just use the default value.

Max Static File Size (bytes) : 1M
Min Static File Size (bytes) : 300

This way all pages that are under 1M bytes will be compressed and sent to visitor’s browser.

Have incorporated the above changes, namely:

Max Static File Size (bytes) : 1M
Min Static File Size (bytes) : 300

,my server was then given a graceful restart and the subsequent
Enable gzip compression tests on gtmetrix are now graded with a “B”, which is much better.

Would be nice if I could get a grade “A” test results from the above tests too. – I suppose that should be possible too, isn’t it?

Good job.

Gtmetrix should also give a detailed list for that graded “B”, it will tell you why it gives “B”. Prolly its caused by some resources that are out of that range to compress.

Try to check the size and adjust your max size setting for gzip.

e.g. if one file test.css or index.html is 1.5M, it won’t compress. Then change your max size from 1M to 1.6M, it will be gziped.

Okay