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Struggling with gzip on js and css - doc_uk - 02-20-2012 10:51 AM
Hi
Test results are here - http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120220_6Y_39W9F/
According to this it tells me that the js and css are not gzipped, yet the html is. I have modded vhost.conf (Plesk control panel so cant touch httpd.include) to include the relevant document types and pointed it to the root web folder (httpdocs).
Am I missing something?
Regards
Doc
RE: Struggling with gzip on js and css - pmeenan - 02-21-2012 01:42 AM
Two possibilities come to mind:
1 - You have a rule in place somewhere (.htaccess or config) that is disabling gzip for IE.
2 - mod_deflate isn't installed and html compression is actually being done by the application itself.
RE: Struggling with gzip on js and css - doc_uk - 02-21-2012 05:01 AM
Hi Patrick
Those are the ones I'd checked as well:-
I have all the AddOutputFilterByType types in place in the htaccess for the catalog folder.
mod_deflate is an installed module.
Confused is an understatement at the moment!
Thanks
Doc
RE: Struggling with gzip on js and css - doc_uk - 02-21-2012 09:50 AM
Ok, bit of an update on this. Just checked the webpage elements on http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and the css and js are both showing as gzipped from the server.
Confused! Any ideas?
Thanks
Doc
RE: Struggling with gzip on js and css - LeptienM - 02-21-2012 06:45 PM
You must have an IE specific rule active somewhere. Using WPT you can see, that Firefox, Chrome and IE9 all get gzipped responses. IE 7 and IE 8 do NOT.
RE: Struggling with gzip on js and css - doc_uk - 02-22-2012 06:37 AM
Hi LepienM
I'd only tested against IE7 and 8 which are the UK links hence why I hadn't spotted that. That has helped to track it down.
I had an old version of instructions in htaccess, I had bMSIEs6 instead of bMSI[E] as the exclusions
Thanks
Doc