Page Speed – Tips for speeding up your site Part 4

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Smart Traffic SEO Tip #46 – Tips for Speeding Up your Website – Part 4

*Gzip Compression

*Compression is a simple, effective way to save bandwidth and speed up your site. Why? Because reducing the size of the HTTP response (compressed file) reduces response times.

*It is applicable to HTML documents, scripts and stylesheets.

*When zipping or compressing the file,

1.The browser sends a header that tells the server that it accepts compressed content during HTTP request.
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

2.When the web server sees this header then it may compressed its response and notifies the web client with this header in response.
Content-Encoding: gzip