STATUS IS UPWEBSITE READINESS

Readiness check · Accelerate lane · weight 8

HTML compressed

A homepage larger than 1 KB is delivered with Brotli, gzip, zstd or deflate encoding.

Observed on
93%

of 28,208 measured sites

Top 1K sites
96%

281 measured

Top 1M band
94%

4,581 measured

Not measured
11,887

blocked, challenged or not applicable

Why it matters

Compression usually shrinks HTML several times over, so the first bytes of the page arrive sooner on slow connections.

How to fix it

Enable Brotli or gzip for text responses (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, SVG) at the CDN or origin.

How we check

A homepage larger than 1 KB is delivered with Brotli, gzip, zstd or deflate encoding.

Observed: HTML delivered compressed.

Not observed: HTML delivered uncompressed.

Limit: Read from the homepage response only; other pages or regions may send different headers.

Stack-specific steps

  • Cloudflare: Cloudflare compresses eligible responses; check compression rules if HTML arrives uncompressed.
  • Amazon CloudFront: Enable Compress objects automatically on the cache behaviour.
  • Fastly: Enable compression for text content types.

By popularity band

Chrome UX Report bandObservedMeasured
Top 1K96%281
Top 5K95%1,290
Top 10K93%1,622
Top 50K92%12,555
Top 100K92%3,817
Top 500K93%4,062
Top 1M94%4,581

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