Fonts Never Compress

[JAB Creations]

I do a lot of optimization work and have noticed that no matter how many tutorials I go over the fonts request are not being compressed. There is no Content-Encoding header being set and I'm verifying the issue through both Chrome and Firefox via the network panels of the built in developer tools and the Apache access logs. I am not a web host myself, my host is the one using LiteSpeed.

Here are just some of the things I tried to do to compress the ttf files:

Example #1

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf application/vnd.ms-fontobject

Example #2

AddEncoding x-compress .ttf

Example #3

AddEncoding x-gzip .ttf

Example #4

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE *

Example #5

AddType application/x-font-ttf ttf ttc
AddType application/x-font-woff woff
AddType font/opentype otf

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf

It's not difficult to verify if a file is compressed before it's been transferred as Waterfox's Developer Tools Network Panel will show total and transferred; if they are the same for an HTTP request then there was no compression.

 

[Tishu]

Hello,

From litespeed webadmin -> Configuration -> Server -> Tuning -> GZIP Compression add:

application/x-font-ttf, application/font-sfnt

( and others).