htaccess gzip for Faster Loading and Bandwidth Saving

If you can use htaccess on your server and want to use gzip for faster Page Load Times / Bandwidth Saver. You can put the following lines in the htaccess file on your server:


<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on       Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk  Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file      \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl|jpg|png|gif)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler   ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime      ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime      ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime      ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>


This basically checks to see if mod_czip.c is found and if it is it will compress the files for you so they are faster to send to the browser. This supposedly speeds it up 35-40%. Then file sized supposedly go down 55-65%.