{"id":1602,"date":"2019-02-08T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583188-is-zlib-compression-enabled-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:16:53","slug":"1583188-is-zlib-compression-enabled-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583188-is-zlib-compression-enabled-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ZLib Compression Enabled in Hostinger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>ZLib compression<\/b> is a widely used data compression library and algorithm that&rsquo;s designed to efficiently reduce the size of data.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">ZLib data compression<b> <\/b>is <b>already enabled <\/b>on all of our <b>Web and Cloud hosting plans<\/b>. You can double-check this, together with the main information about the ZLib version, on the <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583467-how-can-i-see-my-php-configuration-info\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">PHP Info page<\/a><\/b>: <\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/765cc9d0-3cba-4297-bdfa-51c42d13360b.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">However, the <b>zlib.outputCompression<\/b> (or <b>zlib.output_compression<\/b>) <b>PHP option <\/b>is not enabled by default. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">To enable it, open the<b> PHP Configuration <\/b>&rarr; <b><a href=\"\/support\/4667515-how-to-manage-php-extensions-and-options-on-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">PHP options<\/a><\/b> page, add a checkbox next to <b>zlib.outputCompression<\/b>, and save the changes:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/d6a0726a-e8e0-40d7-b98d-034ae288af41.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">After this, you&rsquo;ll be able to use ZLib output compression in your projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling ZLib compression at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php-extensions-and-options"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583188-is-zlib-compression-enabled-in-hostinger\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5499,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}