Resolved Performance Booster - not working Compress gzip

[kalombo]

Hi,

I have enabled performance Booster on our domain: KALOMBO when testing it on Pingdom Tools, it shows that Compress components with gzip, even when this function is enabled. Could you please advise?

 

[Peter Debik]

Can you see more details which components are not compressed? Some formats like .jpeg/.jpg, .mpeg and archives like .tar.gz, .gz, .zip etc. may be delivered without additional compression, because such an additional compression on files that are already compressed formats create unnecessary cpu time load.

 

[kalombo]

Thanks for your reply. 90% of our images are in webp and some png. In the format you ve mentioned there is none of our format. How can we compress them using performance Booster?

 

[FISHeR]

Hi,

It could be a problem of false expectations, but Performance Booster does not perform data compression. It configures the server so that the optimal parameters of PHP and the web server are used and that gzip and brotli compression are configured.

 

[kalombo]

I have added this directive for nginx

gzip_types text/plain text/css application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/rss+xml text/javascript image/x-icon image/bmp image/svg+xml image/webp image/png;

 

[FISHeR]

Remove all custom nginx directives you have added and enable the "Speed up web server compression" checkbox in Performance Booster.

What result have you got?

 

[kalombo]

Remove all custom nginx directives you have added and enable the "Speed up web server compression" checkbox in Performance Booster.

What result have you got?

The result I have sent you before is with enable " speed up web server compression "

 

[FISHeR]

Please, check the configure arguments with the following command:
nginx -V

Are there these arguments?
--with-http_gzip_static_module --add-dynamic-module=mod_brotli

 

[kalombo]

In attachment is the outcome.

 

[kalombo]

Here

Please, check the configure arguments with the following command:
nginx -V

Are there these arguments?
--with-http_gzip_static_module --add-dynamic-module=mod_brotli

Is the outcome for this command

 

[FISHeR]

The Pingdom Tools does not support the most modern compression algorithm - brotli. Nginx on your server uses Brotli firstly.

gzip also works if asked explicitly:

curl --compressed -k -vvv https://kalombo.ru

* Trying 49.12.134.105:443...
* Connected to kalombo.ru (49.12.134.105) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256
* ALPN: server accepted h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=kalombo.ru
* start date: Jul 21 17:57:28 2023 GMT
* expire date: Oct 19 17:57:27 2023 GMT
* issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/2
* h2 [:method: GET]
* h2 [:scheme: https]
* h2 [:authority: kalombo.ru]
* h2 [user-agent: curl/8.1.2]
* h2 [accept: */*]
* h2 [accept-encoding: deflate, gzip]
* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x13f80bc00)
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: kalombo.ru
> User-Agent: curl/8.1.2
> Accept: */*
> Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
>
< HTTP/2 200
< server: nginx
< date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:26:26 GMT
< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< x-powered-by: PHP/8.2.10
< pragma: no-cache
< cache-control: max-age=0, must-revalidate, no-cache, no-store
< expires: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:16:24 GMT
< x-content-type-options: nosniff
< x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
< x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
< set-cookie: PHPSESSID=2n8j111n57ac5n23lv5i5kg7ig; expires=Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:26:26 GMT; Max-Age=864000; path=/; domain=kalombo.ru; secure; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
< x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none
< expect-ct: max-age=86400, enforce
< vary: User-Agent
< x-ua-compatible: IE=edge
< access-control-allow-methods: GET,PUT,POST,DELETE,OPTIONS
< access-control-allow-headers: x-requested-with
< x-powered-by: PleskLin
< strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
< content-security-policy: frame-ancestors 'self';
< content-encoding: gzip

 

[kalombo]

As per your demonstration and also I checked. Definitely agreed that the tool doesn't support brotli in consequence showing compression issue. In this case, this is not an issue but tool error. Thanks for your time spent on this.