Dynamic Compression for the IIS to improve Sitecore performance.

For improving the site performance and page load time – This can be planned.

Sitecore 8.1 , IIS v10

Steps:-

Add Entry

 Enable these setting – apply and restart the IIS

Plan to request vis Accept-Encoding header

If this will not work try to add below configuration in web.config

  directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\temp\IIS Temporary Compressed Files">

    name="gzip" dll="%Windir%\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll"/>

   

      mimeType="text/*" enabled="true"/>

      mimeType="message/*" enabled="true"/>

      mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true"/>

      mimeType="*/*" enabled="false"/>

   

   

      mimeType="text/*" enabled="true"/>

      mimeType="message/*" enabled="true"/>

      mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true"/>

      mimeType="*/*" enabled="false"/>

   

 

  doStaticCompression="true" doDynamicCompression="true"/>

Testing: -

For verification/testing. We can use developer tools from the chrome and firefox.

http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/

http://getfirebug.com/

Need to add HTTP response header to Content-Encoding: gzip

Ref:-

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17321131/compression-filter-for-web-api/17331627#17331627

https://forums.iis.net/t/1233689.aspx