page compression

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pmichelazzo's picture

CSS/JS files compress

Dear folks,

When we make a website using Drupal, almost every module have a CSS file and Drupal load it in every page. Just for an example, I have a small install of D7 in my machine with the core, views and ctools, just it. To load the homepage, Drupal load 13 different CSS files, including one for views, one for ctools, 4 from core (system module), 2 for fields, etc. For me, this is a huge amount of files with a big problem: each file is a request for the server (that's make the website slow).

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aharown07's picture

With nginx, should I enable "page compression" in the Drupal performance settings?

Just starting running my sites on an nginx server I set up w/info from vpsBible.com
I'm not sure if nginx normally compresses/gzips or how to tell if I have that enabled. The Drupal perf. page says not to use page compression if the web server does, so... anyone know if nginx + Drupal page compression is a bad idea?
...or how to tell if my nginx is compressing or not?

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