Comments on: WordPress Compression Plugin

By: David

David — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:58:53 +0000

I installed it and only my home page would pull up, the rest of my site would just load a completely blank white page. I tried on multiple computers and different browsers, soon as I disabled it, they would all load back up immediately. Any ideas?

By: steven

steven — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:29:07 +0000

Hi iPhone, never seen that one. Will take a look and let you know.

By: iPhone

iPhone — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:11:52 +0000

This plugin works really great but once installed and when I try to upload a photo I have this message : Warning: ob_start() [ref.outcontrol]: output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ cannot be used after ‘URL-Rewriter’ in /homez.38/anotherlq/generationiphone/wp-content/plugins/wp-http-compression/wp-http-compression.php on line 30
240

Do you know how to fix it please?

By: cnxsoft

cnxsoft — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:27:05 +0000

After installing the plugin with WordPress 3.0.1, my blog (http://www.cnx-software.com) still does not support gzip compression.

By: Gerardo

Gerardo — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:38:19 +0000

EXELENT!

Original Size: 40.25 KB
Gzipped Size: 6.63 KB
Data Savings: 83.53%

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:04:04 +0000

I tested my site and got this:

Your blog application doesn’t support gzip compression.

Any thoughts?
http://travelnursingblogs.com/

By: steven

steven — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:25:03 +0000

UPDATE REGARDING WORDPRESS 3.0

I have installed WordPress 3.0.1 (this page you are looking at) and tried deleting and re-installing the WP-HTTP-Compression Plugin directly from the wordpress site.

I am happy to confirm that EVERYTHING IS WORKING AS NORMAL. The issues mentioned by users above probably have to do with inter-plugin compatibility (sometimes two plugins are not very happy living together) or some other quirk to do with the server where wordpress is hosted.

You can check for yourselves. Currently the statistics for this page are as follows:

Compression Status: Compressed (gzip)
Percentage Saved by Compression: 74%
Transfer Speed Improvement: 4.0 x

http://www.port80software.com/tools/compresscheck.asp?url=http://desalasworks.com/wordpress-compression-plugin/&

By: steven

steven — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:10:54 +0000

Hi Paul,
Thanks for flagging this up. The number of pages shouldnt affect things, its more about the popularity of the site. It takes a little processing power to compress each page. Too many visits and the server has to sit there crunching away compressing each page. If you have 15 requests a second thats a lot more processor usage that a page every so many minutes, and if you take into account that most hosting providers will cram 200 sites or more per server that may not leave a lot of processor power left for you. This plugin is recommended for sites that have low to medium traffic after that super-cache or wp-cache will probably work better but bandwidth usage might go up, sorry it couldnt work out for you.

By: steven

steven — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:03:42 +0000

Hi Dave / Marie,
Thanks for flagging this up, I been busy working on other projects so haven’t had much time to look into this plugin.
I havent checked compatibility with version 3 of WordPress but will have a look and get back to you right away.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:35:32 +0000

Noticed that when using this with version 3 that installing plugins (and updates) don’t re-enable after updates. You also don’t get to see the status updates. Disabling this plugin returns WordPress to its normal behavior… Probably more to do with compression and streaming – but it wasn’t an issue with the previous version of WordPress.