Enable gzip or brotli compression — Cursor

Uncompressed responses waste bandwidth and slow down Core Web Vitals. Brotli is the modern standard — enable it on Vercel, Netlify, or your CDN.

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In Cursor you edit real files, so this fix lands via direct diffs instead of a regenerated project. Paste the prompt below into your Cursor chat and the fix rolls out across the project in one pass.

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Copy and paste this into your Cursor chat exactly as-is.

Apply these changes to my codebase. Edit the files directly and keep existing formatting:

Enable compression

1. Enable gzip or Brotli compression on your web server / hosting.
2. For Vercel/Netlify this is automatic. For custom servers, configure nginx/Apache gzip.

Why this matters

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript compress extremely well — typically 70-80% smaller. That shaves hundreds of milliseconds off Time to First Byte and LCP, especially on mobile.

Every major host supports this out of the box (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Replit). Self-hosted? Enable it in nginx/Caddy/Apache config. Brotli is preferable; gzip is the universal fallback.

How to use this prompt in Cursor

1. Open your Cursor project.
2. Copy the prompt above with the copy button.
3. Paste into the Cursor chat and send.
4. Review the diff, accept the changes, redeploy.
5. Verify the fix using the checklist below.

Common mistakes to avoid

error_outlineCompressing already-compressed assets (JPEG, PNG, WebP) — waste of CPU.
error_outlineEnabling compression but not for the right content types — images and PDFs should not be recompressed.
error_outlineAssuming your host does it automatically without verifying.

How to verify the fix worked

check_circle`curl -I -H "Accept-Encoding: br" URL` — `Content-Encoding: br` in response.
check_circleChrome DevTools → Network → response headers show `content-encoding`.
check_circlehttps://tools.keycdn.com/brotli-test — green check.

Frequently asked questions

gzip or brotli?expand_more

Brotli is ~15-20% better than gzip on text. All modern browsers support it. Ship brotli, fall back to gzip.

Does it hurt CPU?expand_more

Negligibly, and hosts pre-compress static assets at build. Cost is near-zero.

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