A little dab'll do ya
Code Snippets
Active Gzip Compression
Compression reduces response times by reducing the size of the HTTP response. Gzip is the most popular and effective compression method currently available and generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today's Internet traffic travels through browsers that claim to support gzip.
# BEGIN GZIP
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</ifmodule>
# END GZIP
What happens to the 10% who don’t support it?
Under Apache 2 better use mod_deflate
I’ve never understood how to get GZIP working. By just copying this into the .htaccess it will GZIP all my content?
Some server don’t support it. This might be the reason, why it’s not working for you. The example above will compress the follwing file types:
- text
- html
- xml
- css
- js
Important is not the file extension, but how the server handles the files. Images – no matter what format – will not be compressed with this setting. This wouldn’t make sense, because all image types already use compression in one way or the other. And these compression methods are much more effective in handling bitmaps (image data).
Does this have a downside?
What happens in browsers which do not support gzip when using this?
I have a question as a .htaccess noob.
How does this code work?
I have added it to mu .htaccess file and Yslow in FireBug says that I do not have gzip compression?
Any ideas
i want to know where is the located .htaccess file where is put this above code and also tell me whats the procedure to do this gzip/deflat integration.
i have add that string but did not work. my server use apache 2