Enabling Gzip HTTP compression on web servers reduces text asset payload sizes (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON) by up to 70%, improving page load speed and Core Web Vitals scores.

Nginx Gzip Configuration

/etc/nginx/nginx.confnginx
http {
    gzip on;
    gzip_comp_level 5;
    gzip_min_length 256;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_types
        text/plain
        text/css
        application/json
        application/javascript
        text/xml
        application/xml;
}