Page Speed says I need to enable compression (Deflate). How do I do this

[JasonMonette]

How do I enable compression on Bluehost hosted site?

Thanks

[djmatt]

When you login to cPanel, look for the "Optimize Website" link.

[JasonMonette]

Thanks for the reply!

I finally figured that out. Unfortunately, after many live chat sessions with support, I was told that the server decides when to compress and when not to. This is no good.

Is there any other way to compress my site so that my google page speed will be in the 90s? I would really like to get that page speed thing nailed down, but it seems impossible on blue host.

Thanks!

[Bob Barr]

When you login to cPanel, look for the "Optimize Website" link.

When the heck did they add that button? (I really wish Bluehost would announce changes such as this.) Do you know if it adds code to your .htaccess file?

[JasonMonette]

Yes it adds this code to your .htaccess file in your root:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    AddOutPutFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html text/xml text/css text/javascript application/xml application/xml application/rss+xml application/javascript application/x-javascript
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
        # Netscape 4.x has some problems...
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
        
        # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
        BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
        
        # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
        # BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        
        # NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
        # the above regex won't work. You can use the following
        # workaround to get the desired effect:
        BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
        
        # Don't compress images
        SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
    </IfModule>
    
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
        Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
</IfModule>

[JasonMonette]

When the heck did they add that button? (I really wish Bluehost would announce changes such as this.) Do you know if it adds code to your .htaccess file?

Yes, they add code to your .htacess file in your root. I tried posting the code here, but it wouldn't let me. The problem is it only works when the server decides it works. Which does us no good.