Struggling with gzip on js and css

Web Performance Optimization Discussions
#1

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

#2

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.

#3

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

#4

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

#5

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.

#6

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