PageSpeed Insights not seeing the Gzip compression

Question

I\'m trying to speed up my website. Google insights (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights) tells me that a critical problem is to enable GZip compression.

Answer 1

For anyone who may be having an "Uncompressed Pages" issue after running a SEMRush site audit, try adding the following to your .htaccess

mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html|txt|css|js|php)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_Gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*

Always remember to backup your .htaccess file before making any edits, as a simple typing error could cause certain features of your website to fail or even worse - break your entire website.

Reference: https://www.semrush.com/blog/improve-page-load-times-htaccess-file/