Optimize Website
This interface allows you to configure your server to automatically compress specified types of content when visitors access that content.
Note:
Your system administrator must enable mod_deflate for the Optimize Website interface to appear in cPanel.
Manage compression
To disable compression of your website's content, perform the following steps:
- Select Disabled.
- Click Update Settings.
To compress all of your website's content, perform the following steps:
- Select Compress all content.
- Click Update Settings.
To specify a list of types of content to compress, perform the following steps:
- Select the Compress the specified MIME types option.
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In the MIME types text box, enter a space-separated list of the types of content that you wish to compress (for example,
text/html text/plain text/xml).Notes:
- Image file formats, such as
.jpgand.png, already compress data. Do not include any image file formats in the list. - For more information, view Wikipedia's list of Internet media types.
- Image file formats, such as
- Click Update Settings.
Note:
cPanel saves your settings to a .htaccess file in your home directory. Your system administrator customizes these settings with the Apache FileMatch directive.
Additional information
For more information about the mod_deflate module, which handles website content compression, read the documentation for your server's version of Apache:
Note:
The Stats sidebar on your cPanel dashboard displays your server's version of Apache.
