Optimizing my yunohost wordpress blog

After my last update about my blog migration, basically all I did was install LiteSpeed Cache plugin and mess around with it.

For reference, lots of documentation goodness here

The most important part to note is that I kept getting bugged by both Google’s PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix to enable text compression.

After some time reading about compression and Marco Saric’s post, I tried to enable compression by adding some lines of code at the bottom of the .htaccess file (accessible by the plugin through: LiteSpeed Cache->Toolbox->Edit .htaccess ):

<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
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.*
</ifModule>

This didn’t work and realized that gzip doesn’t come enabled by default (most things were commented out) in yunohost’s nginx installation. So I referred to this link and edited the file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf :

gzip on;

add_header Content-Encoding "gzip2";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript

The line

add_header Content-Encoding "gzip2";

is the most important, after that my blog was tested for compression using: https://www.giftofspeed.com/gzip-test/ and https://varvy.com/tools/gzip/ , both test websites see compression enabled.

I’m still not sure about Google’s PageSpeed Insights but GTmetrix sees it as well. Here are my results (for now):

Just for fun (haven’t looked too much into this yet) I am adding the score for Website carbon as well:

So far I am more or less happy with the results and there is room for improvement. Some settings seem to break my Indieweb and ActivityPub plugins.

Day 15 of #100DaysToOffload