Performance check
Text assets are compressed
Text responses are served with gzip or Brotli.
medium severityperf.compression
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Why it matters
Compression cuts the bytes on the wire by roughly three quarters for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is the cheapest speed win there is.
How to fix it
Enable Brotli or gzip compression for text responses at the CDN or the origin.
The details
- Category
- Performance
- Severity of a failure
- medium
- Confidence
- high
- Needs a browser
- No
- Check id
- perf.compression