Use the Optimize Website interface to tweak the way Apache serves responses and enhance the performance of your website.
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Overview
This interface allows you to configure your server to automatically compress specified types of content when visitors access that content.
Note: Your system administrator must enable the mod_deflate Apache module for this interface to appear in cPanel.
Manage compression
To disable compression of your website's content, perform the following steps:
- Select Disabled.
- Click Update Settings.
To compress all of your website's content, perform the following steps:
- Select Compress all content.
- Click Update Settings.
To specify a list of types of content to compress, perform the following steps:
- Select the Compress the specified MIME types option.
In the MIME types text box, enter a space-separated list of the types of content that you wish to compress (for example,
text/html text/plain text/xml).Notes:
- Image file formats (for example,
.jpgand.png) already compress data. Do not include any image file formats in the list. - For more information, view Wikipedia's list of Internet media types.
- Image file formats (for example,
- Click Update Settings.
Note: cPanel saves your settings to a .htaccess file in your home directory. Your system administrator customizes these settings with the Apache FileMatch directive.