To start this series of performance tuning of your WordPress blog, we propose a simple procedure yet very effective to make your site running fast by adding a code snipplet to .htaccess file. This will greatly reduce the weight of your pages without direct action from you on their content. A comparison before and after modification should convince you of the usefulness of this trick.
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Here is the snippet to insert in your. Htaccess at the root of your FTP server. Remember to show hidden files to download and edit it:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text / html text / plain text / xml application / xml application / xhtml + xml text / javascript text / css application / x-javascriptBrowserMatch ^ Mozilla / 4 gzip-only-text/htmlBrowserMatch ^ Mozilla/4.0 [678] no-gzipBrowserMatch BMSI! No-gzip! Gzip-only-text/html
