Setup gzip via nginx rip form https://mattstauffer.co/blog/enabling-gzip-on-nginx-servers-including-laravel-forge // $ sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

nginx.conf

    # Compression

    # Enable Gzip compressed.
    gzip on;

    # Enable compression both for HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
    gzip_http_version  1.1;

    # Compression level (1-9).
    # 5 is a perfect compromise between size and cpu usage, offering about
    # 75% reduction for most ascii files (almost identical to level 9).
    gzip_comp_level    5;

    # Don't compress anything that's already small and unlikely to shrink much
    # if at all (the default is 20 bytes, which is bad as that usually leads to
    # larger files after gzipping).
    gzip_min_length    1000;

    # Compress data even for clients that are connecting to us via proxies,
    # identified by the "Via" header (required for CloudFront).
    gzip_proxied       any;

    # Tell proxies to cache both the gzipped and regular version of a resource
    # whenever the client's Accept-Encoding capabilities header varies;
    # Avoids the issue where a non-gzip capable client (which is extremely rare
    # today) would display gibberish if their proxy gave them the gzipped version.
    gzip_vary          on;

    # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types.
    gzip_types
      application/atom+xml
      application/javascript
      application/json
      application/rss+xml
      application/vnd.ms-fontobject
      application/x-font-ttf
      application/x-web-app-manifest+json
      application/xhtml+xml
      application/xml
      font/opentype
      image/svg+xml
      image/x-icon
      text/css
      text/plain
      text/x-component;
    # text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule