Optimize WordPress by compressing data through .Htaccess

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.

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