Speed up your website using gZip compression
Most modern browsers support gzip compressed http response so just by enabling this in your Apache configuration, your website will have significant performance improvement.
Why send the html, css, and javascript files in plain text when they can be compressed down to much smaller sizes so that response network traffic will be smaller, making the website content load faster!
Check out how my website response size changed after I enabled the gzip compression!

As you can see from above, the handymango.com html content went from 44.9 KB down to 6.8 KB. That's about 85% reduction in size!
Similarly, my main.css file went from 59.7 KB down to 8.9 KB.
The best part is that you don't have to do any programming or change the website contents to take advantage of this. You can simply enable/install the apache modules and add few lines to the .htaccess file and it will take care of the compressed http response by itself as the gzip compression is requested by the modern browser and if your webserver is configured to support it then it will automatically send the compressed http response that the browser can unzip before rendering it!
So, how do you enable this on your website?
First, you will to enable two modules on your Apache webserver. If you have access, you can uncomment the following two lines in
That's it! Now your website will load faster... go take a break and enjoy a
Why send the html, css, and javascript files in plain text when they can be compressed down to much smaller sizes so that response network traffic will be smaller, making the website content load faster!
Check out how my website response size changed after I enabled the gzip compression!

As you can see from above, the handymango.com html content went from 44.9 KB down to 6.8 KB. That's about 85% reduction in size!
Similarly, my main.css file went from 59.7 KB down to 8.9 KB.
The best part is that you don't have to do any programming or change the website contents to take advantage of this. You can simply enable/install the apache modules and add few lines to the .htaccess file and it will take care of the compressed http response by itself as the gzip compression is requested by the modern browser and if your webserver is configured to support it then it will automatically send the compressed http response that the browser can unzip before rendering it!
So, how do you enable this on your website?
First, you will to enable two modules on your Apache webserver. If you have access, you can uncomment the following two lines in
httpd.conf
file or if you don't have access to that file then you can ask your hosting support team to install/enable the modules below:
LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
Lastly, you need to add the following lines in .htaccess
file
# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
# For Olders Browsers Which Can't Handle Compression
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
</IfModule>
That's it! Now your website will load faster... go take a break and enjoy a


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