How to enable gzip compression (Apache mod_deflate) in cPanel

To enable the gzip compression for your site, follow the steps:
  1. Go to yourdomain.com/cpanel and log in
  2. Look for Optimize Website entry (SOFTWARE cPanel section)
  3. Here you have 3 options:
    –Disabled – which will disable the compression
    –Compress All Content – with this option all content will be compressed
    –Compress the specified MIME types – here, you will be able to input only certain MIME file types.
  4. So, choose the second option and click the Update Settings button. A confirmation message will appear: Website optimization preferences updated. Content compression is now enabled. Content compression is now enabled for all content.
  5. Your site is using now the gzip compression.

    Enable Gzip Compression - Configuration for Nginx and ApacheHow to enable Gzip compression?

    Depending on which web server you are using, the method to enable Gzip will vary. The following describes both an Apache Gzip configuration as well as an Nginx Gzip configuration.

    Apache Gzip configuration#

    The following snippet can be added to your .htaccess to enable Apache Gzip compression for JavaScript, XML, text, fonts, HTML, and CSS. This list of file types can be modified based on your needs.

    <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
</IfModule>

    Nginx Gzip configurationFor Nginx users, the following snippet can be added to the configuration file in order to enable Nginx Gzip.
    gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_types application/javascript application/rss+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font application/x-font-opentype application/x-font-otf application/x-font-truetype application/x-font-ttf application/x-javascript application/xhtml+xml application/xml font/opentype font/otf font/ttf image/svg+xml image/x-icon text/css text/javascript text/plain text/xml;

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