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David Leeman
David Leeman

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Joomla 5 - Should I use Gzip AND Brotli?

Joomla allows the control of Gzip in the administrator section, and I also run most sites through Cloudflare. My UK hosting allows Brotli as a PHP extension, but should I run it if Gzip is enabled within Joomla?

To complicate matters, Cloudflare is moving to Brotli enabled by default soon, so there will be no choice but to run with Brotli enabled via the CDN. I guess this means it is then best to disable the PHP extenson in my hosting...but surely Brotli as a PHP extension is better than Cloudflare <-- this is pure assumption!

So, to recap

Joomla sites run 'best' with GZip enabled Should I run Brotli at all? DO I disable Gzip if Cloudflare is forcing sites to run Brotli Do I disable Brotli in PHP if Cloudflare is forcing Brotli

It's tricky to encapsulate the problem so I hope someone understands my circular issue!

Using a dev server site build (So Brotli is PHP extension here)

I tried Gzip and Brotli disabled - Lighthouse performance 97 Gzip enabled Brotli disabled - Lighthouse performance 98 Gzip disabled Brotli enabled - Lighthouse performance 98 Gzip and Brotli enabled - Lighthouse performance 98

Is it this simple?

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