If you want to increase your website’s performance & speed by reducing website’s load time on client’s i.e. visitor’s machine then this tutorial will help you.
Something About WordPress: WordPress on its own does not offer a mechanism to compress the blog’s HTML output. This normally is a feature provided by the Apache enabled web server.
As Apache Website Defines: The mod_deflate module provides the DEFLATE output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed before being sent to the client over the network.
Here is how to enable gzip compression via .htaccess
If you prefer to enable or fine tune output compression with the apache server, then copy paste below code in your .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_deflate.c> # Insert filters 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 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml # Drop problematic browsers BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary </IfModule>
Yes, Now you have enabled gzip compression for your website but how to know it is working or not?
Go to & Visit This Website to check: Check GZIP compression
Hope it helps,
Thanks & Regards
Mandar Apte
