The modern Brotli data compression algorithm is enabled alongside Gzip when activating compression in cPanel . Compared to Gzip, Brotli achieves smaller payload sizes for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If a client does not support Brotli, LiteSpeed automatically falls back to Gzip.
How to Disable Brotli for a Specific Site
If needed, you can disable Brotli via the .htaccess file in your document root by adding the following snippet:
<IfModule LiteSpeed>
SetEnv no-brotli
</IfModule>
How Can I Verify That Brotli Is Active on My Website?
- Via Browser Developer Tools: Open the Network tab (F12 -> Network -> reload page -> click request -> Response Headers) and look for
content-encoding: br. - Via Online Checker: Use the KeyCDN Brotli Test .