Comments on: Gzip Compression Rocks

By: Preetinder

Preetinder — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:22:21 +0000

Your site doesn’t seem to have Gzip compression right now.
Why did you disable it?

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:46:48 +0000

Hi Daniel
Tested this page using the GZip compression tool.
Said that this page was not GZipped – have you stopped using it?

By: Tim Koschützki

Tim Koschützki — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:02:58 +0000

I too noticed a decrease of visitors by 80%, from all traffic sources, so it must be gzip. I am now turning it off again to see if traffic recovers in GA.

By: Medyum

Medyum — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:42:34 +0000

Compression is always a good idea. I only want to add that there is no single solution here, what works and how to enable it is highly dependent on specific hosting settings.

At my blog deflate filters do absolutely nothing and same with WP-SuperCache setting (which I didn’t like much overall, using HyperCache now).

Took me insane amount of time to make it work using PHP zlib compression.

By the way YSlow (Firefox plugin) is awesome tool that shows compression on all elements (not only HTML) and many other performance things.

@Todor Christov

Quite possible that you broke page display for one of browsers (probably IE). Many compression code snippets fail to mention or address compatibility issues they have.

By: ayman

ayman — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:21:03 +0000

good work