Performance is very important to save resource for visitors using our website.

If you deploy your Java Web Application on Apache Tomcat and you feel it’s a bit slow, please check it out my experience on solving issue of gzip compression by changing configuration of Apache Tomcat.

Result: Before/After Correction

Solutions

• Edit file: apache-tomcat-xx\conf\server.xml change setting connection from:

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
       connectionTimeout="20000" 
       redirectPort="8443"/>

• To add some lines as following:

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
       connectionTimeout="20000" 
       redirectPort="8443" 
       compression="on" 
       compressionMinSize="10" 
       noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata" 
	   compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/javascript,text/css"/>

Tips & Warning

You need to restart your tomcat server for any change of configuration file such as server.xml file.