gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The goal of this article is to provide steps on how to enable gzip compression.
Enabling gzip in IIS
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Open IIS Manager: Click Start, select Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
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In the Connections pane, expand the server node and click the site that you want to manage.
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In the site’s Home pane, double-click “Compression”.
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In the Compression pane, check both “Enable dynamic content compression” and “Enable static content compression”.
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In the Actions pane, click “Apply”.
NOTE: If you have a website behind Cloudflare, you will likely see Brotli Compression instead of gzip compression. The reason for this is that Cloudflare uses Brotli compression in their setup and when you make a request to a site behind Cloudflare, the response header will come from Cloudflare and not directly from the server.
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