Without going into the Plugin code and then figuring out the PHP method used to create the zip archive you’re better off just opening the file and checking the contents as @fdsa suggests. The stored 0% would indicate there was nothing in the directory to add to the archive. The deflated xx% indicates the percentage … Read more
Check .htaccess on /home/ and /homr/public_html/ (For example of site root), Probably there are some codes there to add gzip to the web server a web server can enable the gzip as default check php.ini file for zlib.output_compression value, It should be off
Minifying the CSS and JavaScript files is totally optional. The most important result is that your files are going to take less space, and be served more quickly. This will result in saving bandwidth, if you have a limited plan. These files will be executed in the client, so the more optimized they are, the … Read more
To answer your question, yes, it is that easy to enable compression. However, that’s only a small step when configuring a site for performance. You should not attempt to handle compression from your plugin, unless the entire purpose of the plugin is load time optimization. Leave that to dedicated plugins, such as the WP Super-Cache … Read more
Mixing String and byte[]; that does never fit. And only works on the the same OS with same encoding. Not every byte[] can be converted to a String, and the conversion back could give other bytes. The compressedBytes need not represent a String. Explicitly set the encoding in getBytes and new String.
Here is a quite nice guide how to add support for pre compressed static content to apache with fall-back to gzip