Why qppr_frontend_script.min.js can not gzip on nginx

  • this is qppr_frontend_script.min.js gzip test

    Server nginx/0.8.55
    Date Sun, 20 Sep 2015 10:03:25 GMT
    Content-Type application/x-javascript
    Content-Length 1014
    Last-Modified Thu, 20 Aug 2015 05:13:52 GMT
    Connection keep-alive
    Keep-Alive timeout=20
    Expires Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:03:25 GMT
    Cache-Control max-age=2592000
    Accept-Ranges bytes

    this is other .js file gzip test

    Server nginx/0.8.55
    Date Sun, 20 Sep 2015 10:03:25 GMT
    Content-Type application/x-javascript
    Last-Modified Fri, 20 Mar 2015 07:20:15 GMT
    Transfer-Encoding chunked
    Connection keep-alive
    Keep-Alive timeout=20
    Vary Accept-Encoding
    Expires Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:03:25 GMT
    Cache-Control max-age=2592000
    Content-Encoding gzip

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  • jiyuu19th,
    I am not entirely sure about nginx or why a script cannot be gzipped when using it (or any other gzip/script related items for that matter).

    If I had to take a guess, I would say it is possibly because the file is using global variables – but again, I am not sure. The script is enqueued via WordPress and is also localized to allow the script to use dynamic data, but otherwise, I can’t tell you much more than that.

    Maybe you can ask the question in StackOverflow or in an nginx forum, and someone can shine light on the reason. If you do, and you get an answer, please post it back here for others.

    One other thing to note for anyone else reading this post – The script file is minimized and is less than 1KB in size (1014 bytes), so it is very small unzipped. Zipping the file will reduce it in size to +/- 500 bytes – which in percentage would be about 50% (WOW! This looks like a lot!), but in file size terms, only 0.5KB – which is really insignificant in load time.

    Warm regards,
    Don

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