# Gzip disrupts users?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-disrupts-users/243248>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [September 4, 2015, 6:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-disrupts-users/243248 "2015-09-04T06:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rafa\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rafa_F)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-disrupts-users/243248/1 "2015-09-04T06:24:54Z")

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Over the years, whenever I’ve enabled gzip compression on my web  
server I’ve seen website conversions drop. I just enabled compression  
on nginx again and I noticed conversions drop again:

gzip on;  
gzip\_disable msie6;  
gzip\_types application/javascript text/css;

Any thoughts on this? Is there more config I should consider?

- Grant

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-disrupts-users/243248/2 "2015-09-04T09:10:49Z")

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You could use online tools/crawlers to validate the content of your  
pages.  
If nothing is wrong, I suppose what you think you see might be an  
observation bias.

You will need to define ‘conversions’. If it means, as I think, people  
visit your website but buy less, that means they display some pages…  
so  
nothing wrong with your nginx I suppose.

## There is nothing wrong with the configuration snippet you provided anyway.

_B. R._