Do you use WordPress? Gzip compression helps reduce the size of your pages' content. By compressing you will greatly increase the speed of your WordPress website and reduce the use of bandwidth on your server.
Google reports that web page sizes can be reduced by as much as 70% to the correct use of gzip compression.
Of course there are plugins such as W3 Total Cache or Super Cache which enable you to gzipped your files. So you won't need to modify it archive .htaccess manually.
In this post we will show how Gzip is done compression through the .htaccess file as every plugin you use in your WordPress, in addition to the useful function it offers, also burdens your site.
So instead of installing caching plugins, you can enable Gzip compression by modifying the .htaccess file located in your WP root.
Beware of editing the .htaccess file, do not use Windows text editors. Download and install it for free application notepad + +
Open the .htaccess and add the following code:
SetEnvIfNoCase ^ (Accept-EncodXng | X-cept-Encoding | X {15} | ~ {15} | - {15}) $ ^ ((gzip | deflate) \ s *,? \ S *) + | [[X ~ -] {4,13} $ HAVE_Accept-Encoding RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip, deflate" env = HAVE_Accept-Encoding AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application / atom + xml \ application / javascript \ application / json \ application / ld + json \ application / rss + xml \ application / vnd.ms-fontobject \ application / x-font-ttf \ application / x-web- app-manifest + json \ application / xhtml + xml \ application / xml \ font / opentype \ image / svg + xml \ image / x-icon \ text / css \ text / html \ text / plain / text \ text / x-component \ text / xml
