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  • #1133085

    Hi Guys,

    We uploaded custom TTF fonts using the custom font uploader.
    These work great but WebPageTest.org complains they are not compressed:

    “Use gzip compression for transferring compressable responses:
    FAILED – (146.4 KB, compressed = 54.0 KB – savings of 92.4 KB) – https://www.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/avia_fonts/type_fonts/galaxie-light/galaxie-light.ttf
    FAILED – (132.8 KB, compressed = 46.8 KB – savings of 86.0 KB) – https://www.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/avia_fonts/type_fonts/itcavantgardepro-bk/itcavantgardepro-bk.ttf
    FAILED – (51.9 KB, compressed = 23.8 KB – savings of 28.1 KB) – https://www.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/avia_fonts/type_fonts/itcavantgardepro-light/itcavantgardepro-light.ttf”

    What is the best practice to gzip these fonts?
    Thanks!

    #1133089

    it would be better to see your live-page

    i have my entries for that in the invisible .htaccess file (in the root directory of the installation)
    for older server is gzip and newer ones mod_deflate:

    # Gzip
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
        AddType application/javascript          js
        AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject   eot
        AddType application/x-font-ttf          ttf ttc
        AddType font/opentype                   otf
        AddType application/x-font-woff         woff
        AddType application/x-woff              woff
        AddType image/svg+xml                   svg svgz 
        AddEncoding gzip                        svgz
    </Ifmodule>
    
    # Deflate by FileType
    <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom_xml
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-woff
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-woff
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
     AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-shockwave-flash
    </IfModule>
    
    #1133119

    Thanks Guenni007. That is apparently what needs to be done on Apache.

    For nginx (mine) here are the instructions:

    However my host says this is already enabled on my server. They also say their other testing shows gzip working for the fonts.

    So I’m really confused why WebPageTest says it’s not working.

    #1133138

    yes, you’re right, of course; since you didn’t mention it above, I once assumed the most common case. But I hope the htaccess hint has led you in the right direction with your nginx.conf.

    With an IIS server it would be the web.config file

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