{"id":1172,"date":"2025-08-13T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/enable-website-compression\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:01:02","slug":"enable-website-compression","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/enable-website-compression\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Website Compression in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"margin:1.35rem 0 1.75rem;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/01-optimize-website-main.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/01-optimize-website-main.png\" alt=\"Optimize Website screen in cPanel\" style=\"display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<h2>Open Optimize Website<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <strong>Software &gt; Optimize Website<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Choose the compression option you want.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Enable Compression for Common File Types<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Select <strong>Compress the specified MIME types<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Enter the file types you want to compress, such as <strong>text\/html text\/plain text\/xml text\/css application\/javascript<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"margin:1.35rem 0 1.75rem;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/02-compression-settings.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/02-compression-settings.png\" alt=\"Optimize Website compression settings\" style=\"display:block;max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li value=\"3\">Click <strong>Update Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Compress All Content<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Select <strong>Compress All Content<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Click <strong>Update Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Disable Compression<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Select <strong>Disabled<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">Click <strong>Update Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Compression can reduce page size and improve load times.<\/li>\n<li>Images, videos, and already compressed files may not benefit from extra compression.<\/li>\n<li>If something stops working after a change, switch back to the previous setting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Optimize Website Go to Software &gt; Optimize Website. Choose the compression option you want. Enable Compression for Common File Types Select Compress the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[22],"class_list":["post-1172","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-cpanel-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1172\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}