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Enable GZIP Compression

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

To enable Gzip Compression:

  1. SSH into the website you would like to enable mod_deflate on
  2. 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
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<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>