How to speed up your website with gzip

Broadband speeds are going through the roof, but sometimes web developers forget those with slower connections!

The majority of web browsers have support for gzip compression, which compresses the web page between the server and the browser, with virtually no extra processing power needed on the client side.

If you are running a PHP-enabled web server, place this line of code at the top of your PHP pages:

ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

Bingo! Faster loading pages. Remember that this only applies to the final page that gets delivered to the browser, so if you are calling any external scripts or .css files, these won't get compressed.

Check out your before and after page sizes at the Web Page Analyzer.