Generally, Brotli is a lossless data compression much similar to the gzip. Initially, it was launched with the purpose of web font offline compression. Later, Google developed it to an open source compression specially for HTTP server. It also supports Litespeed Web Server, cURL, and Node.js.
Presently it works better than gzip and supported by most of the browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. Its greater compression density ensured lesser bandwidth consumption and loads web contents faster.
As the modern web applications and sites are demanding more features and weighing more over the time, it has become a vital need for a compression technology that reduces bandwidth usage and ensures the websites run faster.
Enabling Brotli on your cPanel/EasyApache 4 would benefit you in many ways, and here’s how to do it.
- Login to cPanel/WHM as root.
- Go through “Software>EasyApache4”.
- Click on ‘Customize’ button.
- Under the ‘Apache Modules’ tab, select ‘mod_brotli’.
- Hit the ‘Next’ button for couple of time until you hot the ‘Provision’ button.
Once it’s done, you will be notified that ‘The provision process is complete.’
You can also add support for Brotli via the command line:
