You might be thinking to yourself, this guy is trying to sell some type of miracle snake-oil potion. How could it be so easy to speed up your WordPress site? The truth of the matter is that most of the time we don’t take advantage of many of the resources available to us. Most WordPress users are delivering uncompressed content to visitors of their sites. But did you know you can serve most of this content in a compressed fashion? It really is as easy as adding the following lines of code to the end of your .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml 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 AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml </IfModule>
Now your site will serve compressed versions of your content and should speed up your site (as much as 10x faster). Let me know if you notice a visible difference in the render time of your site. On many of my sites, the difference is clearly visible.
Heya! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any issues with hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing many months of hard work due to no backup. Do you have any methods to protect against hackers?
Make sure you have backups. And the easiest method is to use BackupBuddy and set it to back your site up at regular intervals.
Worked Brilliantly Ben!!!