In my quest for a faster site I´m looking to serve gzipped files. So I guess I have two options. 1 gzip my files in the build process 2 have the server do the gzipping for me if I were to go for number 2 I{m I correct in thinking that I would have to add this to my headers configuration in the n…

Hi, @teamgi . All the Netlify hosted javascript files load compressed for me. What makes you believe they are not sent compressed? If you still think the responses are uncompressed, we need to be able to track the HTTP responses with this issue. The simplest way to do this is to send us the x-nf-req…

@dev1 , this should be happening automatically (the server doing the gzipping for you). Most browsers automatically request the gzipped (or otherwise compressed) version of an asset with the accept-encoding header. For example, Chrome uses the following header when I test: accept-encoding: gzip, def…

My question relates to this support quest. Is there a way to use content negotiation to serve a pre rendered gzip, deflate or br compressed files? Thoughts behind this question. Serve index.html.gzip without running compression. Avoid millisecond render of compressed file.

Nope, sorry, not a feature we support today or intend to anytime soon. I have added your name to the small list of previous requesters so that in case our stance changes, we’ll be sure to let you know.

Hello, I’ve just connected new website to Netlify. The website consist of only 1 html file for now. When tested in Chrome, the website is not served gziped. Inspecting Chrome Network tab reveals that the request header does includes accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br however the response header is…

It will either happen automatically, or not at all - nothing you can configure. For an html file, we should indeed compress automatically. Could you tell me the URL that is misbehaving so I can take a closer look?

Hi, thanks for looking into this. My website is: https://www.wowidget.com/ and here is Chrome console debug screenshot: [no-gzip]

Thanks for that, I can see the same via curl on the command line. It may be that the smallness of the index.html (711 bytes) means we don’t compress it, but I will ask the team in charge of that component of our CDN later this week when I meet with them to investigate for us and will follow up ther…

Hey @gondo , fool was bang on the money. We won’t compress assets smaller than 1kb. I hope this helps!

Hah perfect! Thank you for the investigation. I’ve just increased the page size and as magic, the site is now compressed. Amazing.

It would be awesome to serve pre-compressed files, especially, if it’s inclusive of Brotli. Please add me to that request list.

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