Gzip doesn’t seem to be compressing my files before serving

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I’m writing about this website https://oscarvalenzuela-visas.netlify.app hosted on Netlify. I understand that Netlify should automatically use gzip compression on my files (with exceptions). Since I’m trying to speed the site up, I checked the site on https://tools.pingdom.com and it’s telling me the files are not being compressed.

Chrome devtools shows: content-encoding: br (instead of gzip)
The X-Nf-Request-Id is: 01HHD6854EC3RHGYTBM3HMT50E

I searched forums and asked the AI about the problem. The AI suggests: “One possible issue could be related to your build configuration. In the first extract, a user has a similar issue and their build configuration is shown. They have set compress = true under [build.processing.images] in their configuration. If you haven’t done this, it might be worth trying.”

As a more or less beginner developer, I’ve never dealt with this before and I don’t want to mis-configure a live site. I would really appreciate some help. Thanks.

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So looks like it’s working? Brotli is better than Gzip. Why would you want to downgrade?

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Well, thanks Hrishikesh. As a beginner I ran the site https://tools.pingdom.com and it simply flagged the files as not being compressed (by g-zip). I thought the abbreviation “br” perhaps meant broken. I didn’t even know there were better options like Brotli and that Netlify was using that. Guess you can’t trust the online performance monitoring websites to keep updated on newer technoligy. I appreciate you helping me with that. Now I know!