Try enabling vite gzip/brotli compression

[hackartisan]

From Jonathan Rochkind:

Continuing my vite journey… I noticed that your app does NOT have gzip/brotli production turned on in it’s vite.config. https://github.com/pulibrary/dpul/blob/main/vite.config.ts
You might want to, depending on your setup. I did, for me it was a performance regression, my app was previously delivering .js and .css gzip-compressed, but stopped doing so in my switch to vite, which is a real performance issue.
Enabling vite gzip/brotli compression fixed it though. ElMassimo/vite_ruby#281

[eliotjordan]

I wonder if it would be better to enable gzip compression on the load balancer for all content?

https://github.com/pulibrary/princeton_ansible/blob/7aea93d9da020c1ec4739e62bf5368f6ef3bfdab/roles/nginxplus/templates/nginx.conf.j2#L62

And ensure images, css, json, etc. are compressed:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-improve-website-performance-using-gzip-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-20-04

[hackartisan]

I wonder if it would be better to enable gzip compression on the load balancer for all content?

Interesting idea. There is still a network hop from the application machine to the load balancer, though?

[tpendragon]

Closing this ticket means trying it and seeing how it goes.

[hackartisan]

See how it goes by watching the network tab when loading staging site before / after making this change?