How to compress a website with gzip

Gzip compression is one of the way to optimize site performance. A client browser sends a header request of Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate. Then server knows that his client is gzip enabled. It compresses it's contents and sends back Content-encoding: gzip, deflate.

There are several ways to gzip compress a website.
• Using .htaccess: We can enable gzip compression with .htaccess file. For that we need to enable mod_deflate or mod_gzip. It's pretty simple to work with mod_deflate. To enable it, please uncomment the load module line in httpd.conf file.
  

  LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
  

  
  Now restart apache. You are all set to go with deflate module.
  Please open your .htaccess file and add the below code block:
  

  
  # compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
  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
  
  # remove browser bugs
  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 
  
  

  
  First of we set the file content types which will be process with deflate module to compress. we compress text, html, javascript, css, xml and css files.
  Then, we add some exceptions. like for Mozila version 4, we only compress text files. And also for IE, we will not gzip our contents. Because there is some bug with compression in those user agents.
  
• If we don't have mod_deflate enabled or we don't have proper permission to write .htaccess files, then we can compress files using php ob_gzhandler function.
  
  
  
  We check the "Accept-encoding" header and return a gzipped version of the file; otherwise the regular version.

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