422815 - Add gzipping to css & js files on amo (and other mozilla websites)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 441124

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Ryan Doherty (:rdoherty)]

I was watching traffic for amo and noticed we gzip html, but not css or js.

gzipping more content would reduce the amount of bandwidth we use considerably and speed up render and download times for our users. 

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Hot, yeah; we did this at AOL on the my.aol.com platform with huge wins as well.

Comment 2

[Ryan Doherty (:rdoherty)]

After we get gzip working, we could also set far-future expires headers (2 years min) on all static content (css, js & images). That will also cut down on bandwidth.

Comment 3

[Brian Krausz]

Taking this, will begin work on it next week.

Comment 4

[Brian Krausz]

CCing Wil, Laura thinks this is not done already because our netscaler won't cache it...can you confirm?

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> CCing Wil, Laura thinks this is not done already because our netscaler won't
> cache it...can you confirm?
> 

I can't - I don't know the status of how that works.  We're dealing with the same problem in bug 441124

Comment 6

[Brian Krausz]

This is already being investigated in another bug, marking DUP

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup