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Gzip set compression and cache expires to improve page speed and performance

6 June 2020

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In example we use ubuntu 16.04.

Edit your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

http {
    ...
    
    ##
    # Gzip Settings
    ##

    gzip on;
    gzip_comp_level 9;
    gzip_types *;
    gzip_vary on;
}

http {

...

# Gzip Settings

gzip on;

gzip_comp_level 9;

gzip_types *;

gzip_vary on;

}

Reference:
– gzip, to enable or disable.
– gzip_comp_level, compression level 1 to 9. Higher compression will make server slower, but response page size smaller.
– gzip_types, compression for specific MIME types.
– gzip_vary, to show Accept-Encoding gzip.

Edit /etc/nginx/sites-availaible/foodpalate.com.au.conf

server {
    ...

    # Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC
    location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
        access_log off;
        add_header Cache-Control "public";
        expires 1M;
    }

    # CSS and Javascript
    location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
        access_log off;
        add_header Cache-Control "public";
        expires 1y;
    }
}