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Enabling GZIP compression with this plugin made my site take 1 second *longer* to load – both on first byte and “fully loaded.”
Is it supposed to get better with time?? (As it is, I disabled the plugin as soon as I got back test results from https://gtmetrix.com/ and http://www.webpagetest.org/
Both tests yielded similar results.
I’m a bit frustrated because GZIP compression is enabled on the server, yet the tests say my site is not GZIP enabled. Now, even enabling with this plugin got similar results, except that load time takes 1 second longer.
This evening, GMetrix reported: Fully Loaded Time 6.9s Total Page Size 742KB with plugin enabled. Disabling plugin reduced time to 5.8 s.
webpagetest.org reported 6.228 s with plugin and 5.167s without plugin. So in each case, the savings was over 1 second for deactivating the plugin.
The speed ratings are within range of previous tests, though the page may load faster when there are fewer users on site.
PS I notice that some of the 5-star ratings should be 1-star because they indicate that the plugin is not working.