pelican-zopfli 1.0

An static resource compression plugin for Pelican, the static site generator.

# Zopfli Gzip cache

This is a variant of [gzip_cache] but using [zopfli] for better compression.

Certain web servers (e.g., Nginx) can use a static cache of gzip-compressed files to prevent the server from compressing files during an HTTP call. Since compression occurs at another time, these compressed files can be compressed at a higher compression level for increased optimization.

Since zopfli is slow, this plugin uses joblib to compress files in parallel.

The pelican-zopfli plugin compresses all common text type files into a .gz file within the same directory as the original file.

## Installation

The easiest option is to install via pip from PyPI:

` pip install pelican-zopfli `

It is also possible to simply clone the git repository and put it in a directory listed in PLUGIN_PATHS in your pelicanconf.py:

` git clone https://github.com/VorpalBlade/pelican_zopfli.git `

In both cases you will then have to enable the plugin by putting pelican_zopfli into PLUGINS in your pelican configuration. It is a good idea to only do this in your publishconf.py since this plugin is quite slow.

## Settings

• PELICAN_ZOPFLI_OVERWRITE If True, the original files will be replaced by the gzip-compressed files. This is useful for static hosting services (e.g S3). Defaults to False.

[gzip_cache]: <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-plugins/tree/master/gzip_cache> [zopfli]: <https://github.com/google/zopfli>