Hugo: Add support for pre-compressed gzip files

Created on 5 Dec 2015 · 9Comments · Source: gohugoio/hugo

Most of the discussion around this has been in #1251. It seems these should be broken up into different parts, so this is the one I care the most about.

This is a feature request to have gzip -9'ed files generated along side the finished HTML, CSS, JS, etc.

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@bep now that you have implemented minification, can we open this issue back up to add gzip compression as a final step?

zivbk1 on 6 Aug 2018

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Instead of gzip -9, why not use zopfli? Compatible and better compression.

mjanda on 8 Jan 2016

Never heard of it before, so I looked it up: https://github.com/google/zopfli

Sounds like it could be even better. May want to make a Go binding for zopfli for a cleaner integration here.

teran-mckinney on 8 Jan 2016

I did one test and zopfli took 1m4s vs 0.4s for gzip -9. The output was less than 1% smaller.

Do you have any benchmarks showing it being worthwhile?

teran-mckinney on 8 Jan 2016

Note/Update: This issue is marked as stale, and I may have said something earlier about "opening a thread on the discussion forum". Please don't.

If this is a bug and you can still reproduce this error on the latest release or the master branch, please reply with all of the information you have about it in order to keep the issue open.

If this is a feature request, and you feel that it is still relevant and valuable, please tell us why.

bep on 1 Mar 2017

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I think that with Pipes in place, one of the last bits to finish the pipeline of generating a site for production would be to compress the files before pushing them to the hosting provider. It seems that other cases like this have gone stale and closed. I am hoping that this feature request can be reopened and used to implement this capability in Hugo.

zivbk1 on 25 Jul 2018

@bep now that you have implemented minification, can we open this issue back up to add gzip compression as a final step?

zivbk1 on 6 Aug 2018

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No.

bep on 6 Aug 2018

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It would be great to have gzip and brotli on compilation as a option.

Any reason why it won't be implemented? Design decisions or manpower? Maybe I could help.

mateusfccp on 8 May 2019

It would be nice to have this feature. With my current middleman site I gzip everything before rsyncing it to the server and let apache service the *.gz files directly.