What is GZIP and why your WordPress website needs it?

How to enable GZIP compression for your WordPress website with WPCacheOn
How to enable GZIP compression for your WordPress website with WPCacheOn

If you would like to achieve fast loading time for your WordPress site, crucial thing is to decrease the size of your pages. This could be the difference between website that loads in 1 second and one that feels like it is dragging. Enabling GZIP compression will help reducing the size of your webpage, which usually significantly reduce the amount of time to download the resources (CSS, JS, images and etc.), reduce data usage (bandwidth) for the client, improve the time to first render of your website page and improve the user experience.

All modern browsers support GZIP and automatically look for GZIP compression for all HTTP requests. Today we will share with you how to check and enable GZIP compression on your web server and your website.

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