Compressing is one of those optimizations for a website which can be easily done and still has tremendous effect. Gzip compressing your files results in less bandwidth being used and a lot less data that needs to travel all the way to the impatient client.

gzip compressing is a piece of cake when you can use htaccess. You can put the code below in your .htaccess file:

<Files *.js>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

< /Files>


<Files *.css>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

< /Files>

This will use an output filter to compress the files. All .js and .css files within the jurisdiction of this .htaccess file will be sent compressed to the client.