# GZIP Config

gzip on;  
gzip_min_length 1000;  
# gzip_http_version 1.0; # if you want HTTP1.0 compressed  
# allows CDNs to cache compressed and uncompressed versions  
# for various clients that could ask for uncompressed data  
gzip_vary on;  
# gzip_comp_level 6; # By default, gzip_comp_level 1; you can increase to up to 9 but you wont see much difference unless you are compress large text data  
# enables compression for all proxied requests.  
gzip_proxied any;  
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;  
# disable GZIP for legacy browsers that don’t support it (not sure if they still exist)  
gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)”;  
  
# make sure gzip does not lose large gzipped js or css files  
# see [https://blog.leetsoft.com/2007/7/25/nginx-gzip-ssl](https://blog.leetsoft.com/2007/7/25/nginx-gzip-ssl "https://blog.leetsoft.com/2007/7/25/nginx-gzip-ssl")  
# gzip_buffers 16 8k; is the default and should cover most large css/js/etc files