Not sure how I got it into my head today. Shower thought I guess. I wanted to see if I could compress my wordpress sites to see if I could get them to load faster. Gzip is the way.
Why GZIP? It can compress and save at least 50% and up to 80% of bandwidth. So if you have bandwidth limits on your hosting site it would be a good idea to enable it. ( I have unlimited bandwidth at namecheap)
Will my visitors notice that I am using GZIP? The compressing and unzipping only takes a fraction of a second and the end user will not notice. Most sites today are using GZIP.
I have a lot of photos on my site will GZIP help me? GZIP compression is not recommended for non-text files, such as graphical files and .zip files because it hardly saves space and can therefore increase the loading time.
How easy is it to setup? Super easy! All you have to do is edit your .htaccess file. and add a module and BOOM!
<IfModule mod_deflate.c># Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fontsAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascriptAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xmlAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms–fontobjectAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x–fontAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x–font–opentypeAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x–font–otfAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x–font–truetypeAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x–font–ttfAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x–javascriptAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xmlAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xmlAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentypeAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otfAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttfAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xmlAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x–iconAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/cssAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/htmlAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascriptAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plainAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
https://torquemag.io/2016/04/enable-gzip-compression-wordpress/
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