Comments on: Enable Gzip Compression

By: Alexei

Alexei — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:47:20 +0000

I use Drupal for my site malinamusic.ru and I though the same way till I found one checkbox in Drupal Performance configuration. And it combined all external Javascripts of all external modules I use automatuically for me. I suggest you to look for you platform settings. It might have it. I guess you use wordpress?

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:45:14 +0000

Alexei,

Unfortunately, those scripts aren’t ones we have control over, they are handled by plugins on the blog. Combining them doesn’t seem to be possible.

Dave

By: Alexei

Alexei — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:43:12 +0000

Yeah, you are right. BTW, one thing that might really improve the score of the page and speed is combining external JavaScripts. i did it on my Drupal sites and speed difference was dramatic.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:35:51 +0000

Alexei,

I thing you might want to check that again, there is a green check mark next to enable compression which means it is enabled.

The other things they recommend which brings the score down, are really unnecessary and not advised for dynamic pages or those who don’t have their own server (which is the majority of us)

Dave

By: Alexei

Alexei — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:41:02 +0000

Hi,

I just run Page speed on thi page and it gives only 63% and propose to enable compression for the page

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:02:40 +0000

Bill,

Where is your site hosted? Did you check to see if Gzip was already enabled? Some hosts are doing that automatically now. (Bluehost being one) so you don’t have to turn it on.

Dave

By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:45:24 +0000

I’ve tried this, but I don’t have a php.ini or php5.ini file in my root directory.
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By: Mike Woods

Mike Woods — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:57:32 +0000

Dave, thanks for the fast response. I have had the trouble you’ve talked about when I make changes. I have to delete the cache files before I can see the changes, at times.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:39:32 +0000

If you are using super cache I wouldn’t bother with gzip. But it wouldn’t hurt. I personally don’t like super cache or any of the caching programs I’ve tried. To often they interfere with changes made. Like new plugins or theme tweaks. Especially when you are trying to work on the site and see the changes. So I stay away from cache plugins.

Dave

By: Mike Woods

Mike Woods — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:08:46 +0000

Hi Dave, Would Gzip speed up the page load time for my 246 blogs I have on two WordPress MU sites on a dedicated server? One of the things I've done to speed up page load time is to install WP Super Cache. It seems to work well. The two blogs I'm most interested in working very fast are: Indianapolis News, Events, Information, Photos and Videos Indianapolis Real Estate and Indianapolis Homes For Sale Any other advice or articles you've done about speeding up a blog?