Lite Speed Cache for Joomla and GZIP

[ashrimega]

Hi,
I just installed LS Cache on my Joomla 3.9.28 site with the "LiteSpeed Cache for Joomla" plugin because my host O2switch offers it to me.

Everything works fine https://showbox.tools/ https://showbox.tools/, I just excluded the Community Builder components (user registration) and my contact form so that everything works normally.

My question is the following, the GZIP compression has been disabled when installing the plugin, should I leave it disabled?
I don't dare to reactivate it because I'm afraid of crashing my site in production.


Thanks.

 

[serpent_driver]

Each cache plugin is different and each plugin has different functions, so I don't know exactly why gzip has been disabled. But you can check if gzip is still running. Open developer console in browser and check http headers of the main document. If there is a header:

content-encoding: gzip

or

content-encoding: br

everything is okay and nothing has to be done.

 

[ssnobben]

so whats the answer to the question? "... the GZIP compression has been disabled when installing the plugin, should I leave it disabled? "

should it be enabled or disabled??

 

[serpent_driver]

LiteSpeed offers its own HTTP compression, but on server level not on application level. This can be gzip or br. In both cases it's the same if gzip is enabled on application level, but you better should use gzip/br compression on server level. This is because if gzip is enabled on application level you can't use br compression if this br compression is enabled in LiteSpeed Admin panel. br compression is better than gzip.

So the answer is, what I already described in my last post. Check HTTP headers of the main document. If there is a content-encoding header leave setting for gzip compression disabled.