caching & gzip

nginx.conf

##                                                                                
# Gzip Settings                                                                   
##                                                                                
                                                                                  
# Enable Gzip compressed.                                                         
gzip on;                                                                          
                                                                                  
# Compression level (1-9).                                                        
# 5 is a perfect compromise between size and cpu usage, offering about            
# 75% reduction for most ascii files (almost identical to level 9).               
gzip_comp_level    5;                                                             
                                                                                  
# Don't compress anything that's already small and unlikely to shrink much        
# if at all (the default is 20 bytes, which is bad as that usually leads to       
# larger files after gzipping).                                                   
gzip_min_length    256;                                                           
                                                                                  
# Compress data even for clients that are connecting to us via proxies,           
# identified by the "Via" header (required for CloudFront).                       
gzip_proxied       any;                                                           
                                                                                  
# Tell proxies to cache both the gzipped and regular version of a resource        
# whenever the client's Accept-Encoding capabilities header varies;               
# Avoids the issue where a non-gzip capable client (which is extremely rare       
# today) would display gibberish if their proxy gave them the gzipped version.    
gzip_vary          on;                                                            
                                                                                  
# Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types.               
gzip_types                                                                        
application/atom+xml                                                              
application/javascript                                                            
application/json                                                                  
application/ld+json                                                               
application/manifest+json                                                         
application/rdf+xml                                                               
application/rss+xml                                                               
application/schema+json                                                           
application/vnd.geo+json                                                          
application/vnd.ms-fontobject                                                     
application/x-font-ttf                                                            
application/x-javascript                                                          
application/x-web-app-manifest+json                                               
application/xhtml+xml                                                             
application/xml                                                                   
font/eot                                                                          
font/opentype                                                                     
image/bmp                                                                         
image/svg+xml                                                                     
image/vnd.microsoft.icon                                                          
image/x-icon                                                                      
text/cache-manifest                                                               
text/css                                                                          
text/javascript                                                                   
text/plain                                                                        
text/vcard                                                                        
text/vnd.rim.location.xloc                                                        
text/vtt                                                                          
text/x-component                                                                  
text/x-cross-domain-policy                                                        
text/xml;                                                                         
# text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule                                

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# cache.appcache, your document html and data
location ~* \.(?:manifest|appcache|html?|xml|json)$ {
    expires -1;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/static.log;
}

# Feed
location ~* \.(?:rss|atom)$ {
    expires 1h;
    add_header Cache-Control "public";
}

# Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC
location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
    expires 1M;
    access_log off;
    add_header Cache-Control "public";
}

# CSS and Javascript
location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
    expires 1y;
    access_log off;
    add_header Cache-Control "public";
}

# WebFonts
# If you are NOT using cross-domain-fonts.conf, uncomment the following directive
location ~* \.(?:ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|woff2)$ {
    expires 1M;
    access_log off;
    add_header Cache-Control "public";
}