Comments on: MediaTemple’s Lack of GZIP

By: Jason Grigsby

Jason Grigsby — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:49:21 +0000

Dustin: I’m blind as a bat apparently. I just reread the FAQ again and it says clearly:

As a side note, mod_deflate is installed on the (gs) Grid-Service platform.

The real lesson here appears to be that I need to read more carefully. :-)

By: Jason Grigsby

Jason Grigsby — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:26:35 +0000

Ok, this is the second time I’ve been burned looking at YSlow and not looking at what it is saying isn’t gzipped only looking at the high-level grade of an ‘F’.

In my defense, Media Temple itself says that it doesn’t support gzip and my support ticket got rerouted as a feature request.

It appears though that all I need to do is work on consolidating my css and turning on gzip for it. It is strange, however, that Wordpress doesn’t show the gzip option in the admin area which is what I’m accustom to seeing.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:20:25 +0000

Looks like this page was served from (mt) with gzip encoding:

$ curl -s -H ‘Accept-Encoding: gzip’ http://www.userfirstweb.com/88/mediatemples-lack-of-gzip/ -I
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:14:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.7
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Pingback: http://userfirstweb.com/xmlrpc.php
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=1252a29e45e61841ad58004b706bc26f; path=/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 20
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

There might be some confusion as I think the module was renamed mod_deflate in Apache 2 (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html)