Comments on: How to GZip CSS Files

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:10:06 +0000

Hi Jim, the text file doesn’t have anything in it.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:59:51 +0000

Thanks, I fixed it!

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:26:56 +0000

Like TC says, the file seems to have gone missing.

By: TC

TC — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:03:06 +0000

Also, how will this affect very busy websites? Will my server get taxed or my webhost get cranky (I currently have about 1.8 million pageviews a month).

By: TC

TC — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:01:39 +0000

I’d like to give this a try but the csszip.php.txt file is no longer available, I just get a page 404 error?

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:20:24 +0000

If you’re putting the PHP file in the same directory with the .htaccess file and the CSS or JS file, wouldn’t the .htaccess look like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ csszip.php?file=$1.css [L]

and not

RewriteRule ^(.*).css$ /csszip.php?file=$1.css [L]

(I made two changes. Tell me I’m wrong.)

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:44:19 +0000

this works great for my CSS. thank you!

i also tried with my JS, but it seems to not work with one of my JS files.

is there a way to specify a file does not get compressed?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:58:49 +0000

In my case, I had to add the following to the .htaccess file before the RewriteRule to get this to work.

RewriteEngine On

By: Matt Jabs

Matt Jabs — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:21:26 +0000

FYI: I discovered later that (at least on my server) gzipping the .js files as denoted above caused 2 issues in WordPress administration:

1. Javascript boxes for entering URLs into posts come up, but are blank.

2. On “Thesis Options” page all sections are expanded and clicking the large “+” or individual section “+” has no effect… all options simply stay expanded.

There may be more issues but these are all I noticed for now, so just be aware.

By: Matt Jabs

Matt Jabs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:12:51 +0000

@Guillaume: Thank you very much, that worked like a charm and boosted my homepage from a “B” rank to an “A” rank, and my single pages from a “D” rank to a “B” rank. Absolutely Wangarific.