Should/Can I Disable Strictly Compression?

  • Resolved Jared

    (@jstecklercfanyorg)


    6 years ago

    First of all — your plugin is incredible. It has made a massive difference in terms of performance, and I recommend it to everyone I know whom works on a WordPress site. So thank you.

    Now, in discussing an unrelated topic with our web dev, he informed me that compression on our site “shouldn’t” be done by a plugin, because we already have it enabled in Apache.

    According to the plugin page’s FAQs:

    It concatenates all scripts and styles, minifies and compresses them…

    I haven’t seen any issues on our site under the current Autoptimize settings, but is it possible, helpful and/or necessary to disable strictly the compression functionality of Autoptimize? If so, how would I go about doing that?

    Even though there haven’t been any resulting issues while having compression enabled in Autoptimize, I’d assume that removing any redundant functionality can only be a positive thing (even if the difference is only minor) for a site.

    Any insight you can share on this topic would be sincerely appreciated.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    the main reason why webhosts warn for compression is that some page caching plugins can compress (gzip) the HTML which, if compression is also active at webserver level, can lead to double compression which breaks things. in AO’s case this is not something to worry about as AO leaves compression up to the webserver, for which purpose AO simply adds an .htaccess under wp-content/cache/autoptimize. that way there is no risk of double compression, so all should be fine ??

    hope this clarifies,
    frank

    Thread Starter Jared

    (@jstecklercfanyorg)

    It absolutely does, Frank.

    Thank you so much for the quick response. I sincerely appreciate the support, as well as your phenomenal plugin.

    Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    you’re welcome Jared, feel free to leave a review of the plugin and support here! ??

    frank

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