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Šime Vidas
Asked: 2012-12-20 07:13:16 +0800 CST

How to check if my VPS Apache hosting does GZIP on response?

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I have DreamHost VPS hosting, the server is Apache. When I load my web-site in the browser, and inspect the HTTP reqests/responses in my browser's dev tools, I can see that my browser sends 

Accept-Encoding    gzip, deflate

in all HTTP requests it makes (for all file types). However, when I inspect the HTTP responses, I see this header for the main HTML file:

Content-Encoding    gzip

but this header is not present in HTTP responses for my JS, CSS, and image files. Does this mean that my server doesn't GZIP these types of files?

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Yes, it means that its not gzip these files.

    Test your setting using Yslow, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yslow/ . It will give you more guidelines to optimize your server.

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