Unixcop published a tutorial about how to enable GZIP compression in Nginx.

How to enable GZIP compression in Nginx

Speeding up websites is a task we have to do if we manage a server or if we own one of them. One possible solution is to enable GZIP compression in Nginx. What does GZIP compression allow us to do? Enabling GZIP compression allows Nginx to compress the response data before sending it 

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