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CSS Gzip will no longer be updated/supported and is considered obsolete. All future development is being done in the Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation module.
Based off of Javascript Aggregator this module will gzip your aggregated css files. For Drupal 6.x
Advantages
- It's compatible with Apache 1.3 (works great with cheap hosting).
- Compresses the content once and saves the result (less CPU load on server).
- Uses level 9 compression because it's only run once per file (smaller file size).
- In general, all you need to do is enable the module and it works (no core hacking/modifying .htaccess).
Disadvantages
- Requires Clean URL's in order to work (mod_rewrite).
- Tested on Apache, other http servers not tested.
- Requires download method to be public (check in admin/settings/file-system)
If your using private downloads, Gzipping of js & css can be achieved with the Boost module. I also recommend using the Parallel module as well for this use case (private downloads).
What about mod_deflate?
Long story short this is faster.
How do I know it's working?
The YSlow Firefox add-on has a tab called components; you can check for gzip compression there. See YSlow User Guide -> Components View.
Drupal 7?
This is part of core now!
Project information
Unsupported
Not supported (i.e. abandoned), and no longer being developed. Learn more about dealing with unsupported (abandoned) projects- Obsolete
Use of this project is deprecated. - Project categories: Performance
162 sites report using this module- Created by mikeytown2 on , updated
This project is not covered by the security advisory policy.
Use at your own risk! It may have publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.
