When Gzip compression isn't enabled on WordPress website, Google PageSpeed Insight gives you a warning to Enable Compression. There are a couple ways you can fix this warning. The first, and one of the easiest is by using a caching plugin that supports enabling Gzip.
You can enable Enable HTTP (gzip) compression through caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or specific compression plugin like GZip Ninja Speed Compression. As an alternate way, you can enable Gzip compression is by editing your .htaccess file.
You can enable Enable HTTP (gzip) compression through caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or specific compression plugin like GZip Ninja Speed Compression. As an alternate way, you can enable Gzip compression is by editing your .htaccess file.
- Log into your cPanel.
- Under Files section, select File Manager menu.
- cPanel will popup a message asking you where you would like land within your website directories. In the same window, you will see the checkbox asking if you would like to show hidden files. Check the checkbox Show Hidden Files and click Go.
- Under public_html folder of your website, find and edit the file called .htaccess.
- Paste the following code into .htaccess file at the end of your existing content.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c> # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml # Removing browser bugs for older browsers 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 </IfModule>
- Â Save the changes.
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