Gzip, Brotli, and Browser Cache SetupRecommended Compression Setup

Recommended Compression Setup

For the best performance results, compression should typically be handled at one primary layer of your website stack.

  1. Your CDN or reverse proxy configuration

  2. Your hosting server configuration (Apache or Nginx)

  3. Plugin-level optimization features when needed

If your hosting provider or CDN already applies compression correctly, additional overlapping compression rules are usually unnecessary and may create conflicts in some environments.

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