Enable GZIP for CSS and JS files on NGINX server for Magento

Question

I need to enable gzip compression on nginx server. As I have observed from firfox firebug NET tools, I have found that html file are gzip compressed. But Not the javascript fil

Answer 1

If some of your files are compressed and some are not, then your gzip is working but you might have missed definition in gzip_types. For example, javascript files may return in headers any of following type:

• application/javascript
• application/x-javascript
• text/javascript

To compress all javascript files, all three definitions should be included in gzip_types.

You need to check in response headers what content-type is returned for such an uncompressed file and then make sure it is also defined in gzip_types.