Gzip is not working properly for HTML

Hey @himala76,

Hope you’re well.

When I check your URL with services like https://checkgzipcompression.com/ they are showing Gzip is not enabled too. Can you please make sure all these codes are on your .htaccess file;

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
        <IfModule mod_headers.c>
            SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
            RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_filter.c>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE "application/atom+xml" \
                                      "application/javascript" \
                                      "application/json" \
                                      "application/ld+json" \
                                      "application/manifest+json" \
                                      "application/rdf+xml" \
                                      "application/rss+xml" \
                                      "application/schema+json" \
                                      "application/vnd.geo+json" \
                                      "application/vnd.ms-fontobject" \
                                      "application/x-font-ttf" \
                                      "application/x-font-opentype" \
                                      "application/x-font-truetype" \
                                      "application/x-javascript" \
                                      "application/x-web-app-manifest+json" \
                                      "application/xhtml+xml" \
                                      "application/xml" \
                                      "font/eot" \
                                      "font/opentype" \
                                      "font/otf" \
                                      "image/bmp" \
                                      "image/svg+xml" \
                                      "image/vnd.microsoft.icon" \
                                      "image/x-icon" \
                                      "text/cache-manifest" \
                                      "text/css" \
                                      "text/html" \
                                      "text/javascript" \
                                      "text/plain" \
                                      "text/vcard" \
                                      "text/vnd.rim.location.xloc" \
                                      "text/vtt" \
                                      "text/x-component" \
                                      "text/x-cross-domain-policy" \
                                      "text/xml"

    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        AddEncoding gzip              svgz
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

Cheers,
Oguz

Hi Oguz

This is the code I have on my .htaccess

# BEGIN WP-HUMMINGBIRD-GZIP
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
        <IfModule mod_headers.c>
            SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
            RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
        </IfModule>
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_filter.c>
        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE "application/atom+xml" \
                                      "application/javascript" \
                                      "application/json" \
                                      "application/ld+json" \
                                      "application/manifest+json" \
                                      "application/rdf+xml" \
                                      "application/rss+xml" \
                                      "application/schema+json" \
                                      "application/vnd.geo+json" \
                                      "application/vnd.ms-fontobject" \
                                      "application/x-font-ttf" \
                                      "application/x-font-opentype" \
                                      "application/x-font-truetype" \
                                      "application/x-javascript" \
                                      "application/x-web-app-manifest+json" \
                                      "application/xhtml+xml" \
                                      "application/xml" \
                                      "font/eot" \
                                      "font/opentype" \
                                      "font/otf" \
                                      "image/bmp" \
                                      "image/svg+xml" \
                                      "image/vnd.microsoft.icon" \
                                      "image/x-icon" \
                                      "text/cache-manifest" \
                                      "text/css" \
                                      "text/html" \
                                      "text/javascript" \
                                      "text/plain" \
                                      "text/vcard" \
                                      "text/vnd.rim.location.xloc" \
                                      "text/vtt" \
                                      "text/x-component" \
                                      "text/x-cross-domain-policy" \
                                      "text/xml"

    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        AddEncoding gzip              svgz
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>
# END WP-HUMMINGBIRD-GZIP

Thank you for your help and time on this
Himala

Hi @himala76,

Can you please enquire with your hosting provider, as to why all .htaccess compression rules are not being applied when modules mod_deflate, mod_setenvif, mod_headers, mod_filter, mod_mime are enabled.
They may be able to shed some light on the situation.

Cheers,
Calum

Hello All,
I have the same problem as above.
I’ve done everything that ‘Hummingbird’ has told me including contacting server who replied
“Hi Brian,
I can confirm the necessary modules are enabled.
Please refer to the following (particularly the section ‘Dynamic Content’) regarding setting up compression on a WordPress site:
https://help.blacknight.com/hc/en-us/articles/212523089-GZIP-Compression-Deflate-Linux-Shared-Hosting
Kind regards,”

I have also copied the above code to my .htaccess and Hummingbird is still showing HTML – inactive.

Any ideas?
Regards,
bjbarker

Hi @barkerb003,

Could you please share a link to your site?
Also, have you tried pressing the ‘re-check status’ button?

Best regards,
Anton

Hello @himala76

Hope you’re doing well!

We’ve not heard from you in a while. I’ve marked this ticket as resolved for now, but if you need anything else at all, we’re here for you, please just reopen the ticket or create a new one.

Have a good day and take care!

Cheers,
Nastia