javascript gzip compression

Question

I am using the following code in my .htaccess file kept in the server root to enable gzip compression. However, the javascript is not getting compressed.

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/xml text/javascript application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
</IfModule>

How to enable compression of javascript? I have checked that mod_deflate is enabled and the index page is getting compressed. My website is hosted here.

shauryachats · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-11 17:04:59Z

1

We are not treating javascript as a simple text file here. text/javascript should be replaced by application/javascript as shown.

Application/x-javascript was used for IE as it ignored scripts.

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/xml application/javascript         application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
</IfModule>

Cheers!

edited Mar 11, 2015 at 17:04

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