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Htaccess Enable Gzip Compression

When a user visits a website, it requests files hosting server. It may take some time depending on the size and number of files.

Gzip is a method of compressing files to make it smaller. After compression, the files can be transferred faster to the browser.

How to enable Gzip compression

You can enable compression using different methods on different webservers. The most common method is using .htaccess file in Apache server.

You can place this code inside .htaccess file in the website root (htdocs/.htaccess or public_html/.htaccess) anywhere with changing existing code.

# BEGIN Enable compression
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

  # Remove browser bugs (only needed for really old browsers)
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
  BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
  BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
  Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule>
# END Enable compression

If you have a WordPress website (commonly running on Apache webserver) and want to improve your website speed, you can use the above code.

As speed is essential factors while optimising a website, this code will help with your website SEO. Also, this will improve your website score in GTmetrix, YSlow, Google Insights etc tools.

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