I have no idea why Gzip isn’t just enabled by default in nginx. On my nginx server it was commented in nginx.conf but I had no idea what it meant because I was new to everything so i just ignored it. Later on, I found this site on suckless’ short critical page of the modern web. I read that page and the first page mentioned and saw that page mentioning gzip, but I thought it was negligable and didn’t make much of a different. Yeah I was wrong. It turns out Gzip was exactly what I needed, as my connection is pretty slow and sometimes it takes a while for clients to connect to my server, especially my web server. So way later along the line, probably a month or two later (today), I researched what Gzip is, and I fiddled with it for a while and enabled it, trying to enable it on every available filetype. It makes loading pages so much faster on slower connections and over anonymity networks such as tor or any vpn. But that is about it, I love Gzip, and I’m purposefully being blind to any problems that it may cause me to enable it on every filetype, so if it does actually cause more harm than it does good when used on certain filetypes, please contact me. My contact information is listed at blog.mrgrouse.com/about.
That’s about it. Have a nice day.