Article: GZip files with .htaccess and PHP

I have written an article at Lateral Code entitled GZip files with .htaccess and PHP.

Many hosts have a set bandwidth clients can use. In this day and age, files are getting larger and heavier, but bandwidth costs aren’t getting much cheaper. So, one of the best and easiest things to do is to GZip.

From “The Definitive Post on GZipping your CSS”

CSS files for larger sites can become pretty large themselves. Gzipping or compressing these files has shown to provide a reduction in the neighborhood of 70-80% of the original file size, a fairly significant ‘weight loss’.

So obviously, GZipping CSS is great. But what about JS? JavaScript files are becoming increasingly huge, so what should we do about that?…

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