How to enable website compression with Apache2

Last Updated: 2010-12-31

Allowing Apache to compress the output before it sends it to the client will reduce bandwidth and the load time as well.

I enabled compression across all domains by adding the following to my apache configuration.

 # compress css, text, html, js, ....
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

keywords: g-zip, gzip, deflate, compression, apache2, performance, website

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