Enable GZIP Compression

Enabling mod_deflate on a website will compress the HTML and CSS files through Gzip.

To enable Gzip Compression:

• SSH into the website you would like to enable mod_deflate on

• Copy and paste the code below into the existing .htaccess file. If a htaccess does not exist, create a .htacess in the top level directory

  <IfModule mod_deflate.c>  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/shtml  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript  
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript  
  </IfModule>