Knowledgebase

Overview:

This interface allows you to configure your server to automatically compress specified types of content when visitors access that content.

Manage compression

To disable compression of your website’s content, perform the following steps:

1. Select Disabled.
2. Click Update Settings.

To compress all of your website’s content, perform the following steps:

1. Select Compress All Content.
2. Click Update Settings.

To specify a list of types of content to compress, perform the following steps:

1. Select the Compress the specified MIME types option.

2. In the MIME Types text box, enter a space-separated list of the types of content that you wish to compress (for example, text/html text/plain text/xml).

   Note:

   • Image file formats (for example, .jpg and .png) already compress data. Do not include any image file formats in the list.
   • Apache will compress PHP content if you enable the zlib.output_compression setting in cPanel’s MultiPHP INI Editor interface (cPanel >> Home >> Software >> MultiPHP INI Editor).
   • For more information, view Wikipedia’s list of Internet media types.

    

3. Click Update Settings.

Additional information

For more information about the mod_deflate module, which handles website content compression, read the documentation for your server’s version of Apache:

• Apache 2.0 web server documentation for mod_deflate.
• Apache 2.2 web server documentation for mod_deflate.
• Apache 2.4 web server documentation for mod_deflate.