Enable GZIP compression for Magento 2 Website on Apache/Linux to Make it Load Faster
What is GZIP ? Gzip is a data compression algorithm capable of compressing and decompressing files quickly. How can enabling GZIP can make a website load faster? Websites are getting larger and carry a lot of content that can be compressed and save bandwidth during transmission over the networks. Co...
What is GZIP ?
Gzip is a data compression algorithm capable of compressing and decompressing files quickly.How can enabling GZIP can make a website load faster?
Websites are getting larger and carry a lot of content that can be compressed and save bandwidth during transmission over the networks. Compressing large text format files like javascript and css can save a lot of bandwidth thus improving loading speeds.Using GZIP on a website
On Apache web server gzip compression is utilized to compress the outgoing traffic via mod_deflate. To use GZIP on a website mod_deflate must be installed, enabled and loaded with Apache. You can check of mod_deflate status by running below command in the linux terminal. >sudo httpd -M | grep deflate if mod_deflate is installed and enabled, you should see deflate_module (shared).Related Articles
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