My nginx configuration for compression looks like the following:
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## Komprimierung
gzip on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_comp_level 9;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_types text/plain text/htm text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/atom+xml image/svg+xml;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
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The problem is, nginx isn't compressing all files as it should. Please also have a look at the attached screenshot of YSlow.

Any help and/or suggestions are welcome. If you need more information on any of my setup, just ask for it.

Kindest regards

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I see one problem in your config above:
The MIME type for HTML files is "text/html" , not "text/htm" . Maybe that helps a bit.