From 93e729d5591b7f6acb7f19962a2198c2f951927b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pedro Sousa <680496+pedrosousa@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:59:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [Support] Update "What will Cloudflare compress" --- .../What will Cloudflare compress.md | 51 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md b/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md index 9b6fa71c22cdc2..f6942707eb0181 100644 --- a/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md +++ b/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ title: What will Cloudflare compress # What will Cloudflare compress? +Cloudflare supports content compression both when delivering content to your website visitors and when requesting content from your origin server. +## Content compression from the Cloudflare network to website visitors -In addition to Cloudflare's [CDN](/cache/) [caching static content](/cache/concepts/default-cache-behavior/) and [auto-minification](https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168196-How-do-I-minify-HTML-CSS-and-JavaScript-to-optimize-my-site-) of CSS, JS & HTML to speed up your site, Cloudflare also provides gzip and brotli compression to help site owners.  +In addition to Cloudflare's [CDN](/cache/) [caching static content](/cache/about/default-cache-behavior/) and [auto-minifying](/support/speed/optimization-file-size/using-cloudflare-auto-minify/) CSS, JavaScript, and HTML content to speed up your site, Cloudflare supports gzip and Brotli compression when delivering content to website visitors. -Cloudflare will return gzip or brotli encoded responses to compatible clients / browsers for the following content-types: +If supported by visitors' web browsers, Cloudflare will return gzip or Brotli-encoded responses for the following content types: ``` text/html @@ -32,8 +34,8 @@ application/x-httpd-cgi text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss -application/vnd.api+json -application/x-protobuf +application/vnd.api+json +application/x-protobuf application/json multipart/bag multipart/mixed @@ -55,39 +57,40 @@ application/eot application/font application/font-sfnt application/wasm -application/javascript-binast -application/manifest+json +application/javascript-binast +application/manifest+json application/ld+json application/graphql+json application/geo+json ``` -If you do not want a particular response from your origin to be encoded, you can disable this by setting `cache-control: no-transform` at your origin web server. +Cloudflare's global network can deliver content to website visitors using gzip compression, [Brotli compression](#enable-brotli-compression), or no compression, according to the values visitors provide in the `Accept-Encoding` request header. -___ +### Enable Brotli compression -## Does Cloudflare compress resources? +By default, Brotli compression is enabled for domain on Free and Pro plans and disabled for domains on Business and Enterprise plans. -Yes, Cloudflare applies **gzip** and **brotli** compression to some types of content. We also gzip items based on the browser's UserAgent to help speed up page loading time. +To enable Brotli compression: -If you're already using gzip we will honor your gzip settings as long as you're passing the details in a header from your web server for the files. +1. [Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/), and select your account and website. +2. Go to **Speed** > **Optimization**. +3. For **Brotli**, toggle the switch to **On**. -Cloudflare only supports the content types **gzip** towards your origin server and can also only deliver content either **gzip compressed**, **brotli compressed**, or **not compressed**. +--- -Cloudflare's reverse proxy is also able to convert between compressed formats and uncompressed formats, meaning that it can pull content from a customer's origin server via gzip and serve it to clients uncompressed (or vice versa). This is done independently of caching. +## Content compression from origin servers to the Cloudflare network -{{}} +When requesting content from your origin server, Cloudflare currently supports gzip compression or no compression. -___ +If your origin server responds to a Cloudflare request using gzip compression, we will keep the same compression in the response sent to the website visitor if: -## Enable Brotli compression +* You include a `Content-Encoding` header in your server response mentioning gzip compression. +* The client supports the compression algorithm. -By default, Brotli is enabled for domain on Free and Pro plans and disabled for domains on Business and Enterprise plans. +Cloudflare's reverse proxy can also convert between compressed formats and uncompressed formats. Cloudflare can receive content from your origin server with gzip compression and serve it to visitors uncompressed (or vice versa), independently of caching. -1. [Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/), and select your account and website. -2. Click the **Speed** app. -3. Click the **Optimization** tab. -4. Toggle the Brotli switch to **On**. +If you do not want a particular response from your origin to be encoded with gzip/Brotli when delivered to website visitors, you can disable this by including a `cache-control: no-transform` HTTP header in the response from your origin web server. + +{{}} From 5f840bd35e3d9cdf6b94352bd6e03e4c5caf60c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pedro Sousa <680496+pedrosousa@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 10:14:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix broken link --- .../Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md b/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md index f6942707eb0181..34602798037e7c 100644 --- a/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md +++ b/content/support/Speed/Optimization - File Size/What will Cloudflare compress.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Cloudflare supports content compression both when delivering content to your web ## Content compression from the Cloudflare network to website visitors -In addition to Cloudflare's [CDN](/cache/) [caching static content](/cache/about/default-cache-behavior/) and [auto-minifying](/support/speed/optimization-file-size/using-cloudflare-auto-minify/) CSS, JavaScript, and HTML content to speed up your site, Cloudflare supports gzip and Brotli compression when delivering content to website visitors. +In addition to Cloudflare's [CDN](/cache/) [caching static content](/cache/concepts/default-cache-behavior/) and [auto-minifying](/support/speed/optimization-file-size/using-cloudflare-auto-minify/) CSS, JavaScript, and HTML content to speed up your site, Cloudflare supports gzip and Brotli compression when delivering content to website visitors. If supported by visitors' web browsers, Cloudflare will return gzip or Brotli-encoded responses for the following content types: