Enable gzip compression in WordPress
To decrease the size of data that’s being transferred between your server and your visitors, you can enable the gZIP compression for your images, CSS and JavaScript files.
By doing this, the web server will compress (like creating a ZIP file for example) this content before it’s transferred over the Internet to your browser.
On the other side, your browser decompresses the content before rendering it. This significantly lowers the size of information that’s being transferred lowering the loading times of your pages.
The easiest way to enable the gZIP compression for your images, CSS and JS files is to add these lines to your .htaccess file in the root WordPress folder:
## ENABLE 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 ## ENABLE GZIP COMPRESSION ##
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