gistfile1.txt

# disable compression on old IE versions
#gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

# compress proxied requests too
gzip_proxied any;

gzip_types 
	text/css
	text/plain
	text/javascript
	application/javascript
	application/json
	application/x-javascript
	application/xml
	application/xml+rss
	application/xhtml+xml
	application/x-font-ttf
	application/x-font-opentype
	application/vnd.ms-fontobject
	image/svg+xml
	image/x-icon
	application/rss+xml
	application/atom_xml;

gzip_comp_level 9;

# we want to gzip http 1.0 requests, too, so lower the level required
gzip_http_version 1.0;

# set the Vary: Accept-Encoding header to force proxies to store compressed and uncompressed versions
gzip_vary on;

# increase the size of the buffers to make sure large content can be compressed too
gzip_buffers 16 8k;

# up the minimum length a little to account for gzip overhead
gzip_min_length 50;