How to enable gzip on Plesk Nginx

To enable gzip on Plesk server with Nginx proxy, go to

Plesk > Domains

Click on the domain for which you need gzip compression enbaled.

click on “Apache & nginx Settings”. On next page, scroll down, add following to “Additional nginx directives” text box.

gzip on;
gzip_http_version  1.1;
gzip_comp_level    5;
gzip_min_length    256;
gzip_proxied       any;
gzip_vary          on;
gzip_types
application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/x-javascript
application/json
application/rss+xml
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/opentype
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
text/css
text/plain
text/x-component;

To verify gzip is working, you can open a file directly in browser. Check response headers in browser develoer tool, you should see gzip.

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