Probably your server is not setting the headers for JS files. Try adding this to your .htaccess, right after "SetOutputFilter DEFLATE", this way you'll be asking for compression in two ways, if this doesn't work you should contact your hosting company:
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE css js AddType text/javascript .js AddType text/css .css - ricardo On Oct 19, 4:08 pm, "Sridhar Kuppalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Karl, > > Yes i am using apache. > I have created a new .htaccess file with the below mentioned line and added > to root directory of my site. > It started giving 500 internal server error. > > Then i have replaced that with this content specified in this > url-http://nathanbowers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/htaccess.txt > > Now my Performance Grade has been changed to C(76) !!! :-) which is really > good, before it was D(60). > Thanks for your help. > > But still my JS gzip is not happening. > :-(http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js==> 55KB ==> > Response time is only 594.http://mysites/jsfolder/myjsfile.js==> 17KB > ==>Response time is 1327. > > Why such a huge huge difference? > Yslow is clearly showing that myjsfile.js is not gziped. > > Thanks & Regards > Sridhar K N > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > > Sridhar, > > Are you using apache? Or are you using IIS? > > > If apache, you can create a .htaccess file and add this line to it: > > > AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript text/css > > application/javascript application/x-javascript > > > If IIS, please take a look at the link I posted earlier. > > >http://www.keylimetie.com/Blog/2008/5/20/How-to-enable-HTTP-Compressi... > > > MorningZ, glad to hear that the instructions in that linked page worked for > > you! > > > --Karl > > > ____________ > > Karl Swedberg > >www.englishrules.com > >www.learningjquery.com > > > On Oct 19, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Sridhar Kuppalli wrote: > > > Thanks man, > > > Its really a good one, my request time for jquery library has been reduced > > by 50%!!!!. > > In the similar way I have to do for other js files also. Is there any way > > to achive gziping? > > I cannot configure apache. > > > Regards > > Sridhar K N > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:34 PM, poncz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You can use > >>http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js > >> it is minified, gzip, and the load is not on your servers. > >> It is a free google ajax service. > > >> Enjoy, > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks & Regards > S Kuppalli N