878036 - Compress JSON/SVG for marketplace

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Cloud Services :: Operations: Marketplace, task)

Description

[Hanno Schlichting]

I ran pagespeed insights against the new fireplace marketplace a couple days ago. One thing I noticed is that neither the JSON nor SVG responses where being compressed.

You should be able to reproduce this by going to https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights and entering https://marketplace.firefox.com as the url. In the section about "Enable compression" there are currently URL's like:

https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v1/apps/search/featured/?cat=&lang=en&pro=40.32.1
https://marketplace.firefox.com/api/v1/apps/category/?lang=en&pro=40.32.1

and:

https://marketplace.cdn.mozilla.net/media/fireplace/img/pretty/cat-icons-blue.svg?1369948328
https://marketplace.cdn.mozilla.net/media/fireplace/img/pretty/stars_small.svg?1369948328

I'm not sure at which level of the stack gzip compression actually happens for the web site and CDN. But if nginx is involved, an example config might be:

gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_comp_level 7;
gzip_types text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss
   text/css text/javascript application/javascript
   application/x-javascript application/json image/svg+xml font/truetype
   font/opentype application/vnd.ms-fontobject text/x-component;

gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_vary on;

Comment 1

[Jeremy Orem [:oremj]]

Added compression to marketplace.f.c and marketplace.cdn.m.n. The non-CDN compression is live now. The CDN compression will be live in about an hour.