Nginx

Table of Contents

Interesting options, configurations and information about nginx.

Compression

NOTE: The most reliable way to check whether content is compressed, is by using the debug tools in the webbrowser. Look for the "content-encoding" header
Picture shows parts of the response headers in the network tab of the firefox debug tool

These are the settings used by this website to compress with gzip.
These will suffice for most websites.

    # Compression
    gzip on;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascript text/xml application/xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml application/rdf+xml;

All configuration options can be found in the official documentation

Website Performance

Google's PageSpeed Insights tool can be used to measure website performance.