I just checked my site on Google Webmasters Tools to see if my site has any problem with Google or not and found that in the Site Performance area Google is suggesting me to improve the site loading speed by enabling Gzip compression. It is showing different filesizes for different URLs that I can save this much load by enabling Gzip compression... but I don't know how can I enable it? Where should I look for it? My site is using wordpress, where should I look for the Gzip compression option?
If you are using cPanel, look for the Optimize website link. Which type of hosting are you using, shared/vps/dedicated?
^ I am using Shared Hosting and yes it has cPanel. In my cPanel I can see the link Optimize Website but it has these 3 options 1. Disable 2. Compress All Content 3. Compress the specified MIME types It does not have Gzip option?
Try turning it on for all content, then, visit this page and input your url to see if it worked: http://www.whatsmyip.org/http_compression/ Chris
^ I did it and checked on that URL and it is saying http://www.smsbucket.com is gzipped Original Size: 18.7 KB Gzipped Size: 5.1 KB Data Savings: 72.73% Thanks for your help, now my site is more google-friendly
In order for Gzip compression to work, you need to enable the gzip module (for Apache 1.x) OR mod_deflate module (Apache 2.x) along with Apache and then add a small code of compression for your website in your VirtualHost of the domain. This can only be achieved if you have root access to the server else you will have to ask your hosting provider. First compile http compression module with Apache using EasyApache and then add the compression code in httpd.conf file.