Website optimization using cPanel

When you Optimize Website Content in cPanel, what you are doing is compressing some or all of your website files before they are sent across the internet. The visitor’s browser then decompresses and renders the files.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to enable website optimization in cPanel

Gzip is the most popular and effective compression method today. If gzip compression is enabled for website content, it generally reduces the response size by about 70%. To gzip your website components, log in to your cPanel >> go to the Software section >> the Optimize Website menu.


Here you need to select Compress All Content and click on Update Settings.

Select Compress All Content and click on Update Settings.


You can choose from the following −

• Choose Disable to disable gzip compression.
• Choose Compress All Content to enable gzip compression for all content.
• Choose Specified MIME types and provide MIME types in text box. MIME type are similar to file types. It has both file type and file format information separated with a slash. E.g. text/javascript, text/css, image/jpg, image/png etc.

Last Step  − Click Update Settings to update the settings.

NOTE 1: The optimization procedure requires considerable resources, so it’s possible that it will hit the CPU resource limit temporarily.

NOTE 2: The plugin allows you to determine the degree of image compression you want to use. For example, if you own a photo blog, note that well-compressed pictures will lose quality.