Gzip compression is one of the tools to make your website load faster. The Gzip will compress your website and reduces the size of static file, page thus reducing the bandwidth usage. You can get the clear picture on how the Gzip compression works from Google Developers site. They even produce a video for this!
1. Login to your web host server. Locate and add the following lines into the .htaccess file. Save and your are done!
##### Gzip Compression ################################# AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript AddType x-font/otf .otf AddType x-font/ttf .ttf AddType x-font/eot .eot AddType x-font/woff .woff AddType image/x-icon .ico AddType image/png .png ##### Gzip Compression #################################
2. To verify the Gzip compression is successfully activated on your website, you can test using below website,
• http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
• http://checkgzipcompression.com/
