http://www.allaboutfitness.org/?p=998 A Blog About Fitness Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:32:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.allaboutfitness.org/?p=998&cpage=1#comment-179071 Silver Bullion Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:35:48 +0000 http://www.allaboutfitness.org/?p=998#comment-179071 I'm sure we're all aware of Googles push to use site speed in their algorithm, so I thought you'd find this method to speed up your site by 3 to 4 times using a couple of lines of code interesting. I think it'll work with any site, but it's particularly useful if you're using a cumbersome CMS like Wordpress (I think this site is Wordpress?). Essentially if your host has zlib compression enabled you can add 2 lines of code above the document type in your header.php, and when a visitors browser calls the pages, your server will automatically compress them and send the compressed file to their browser. I don't want to go into too much detail here, so if you search for it in Google you should find various sites with instructions. I've been testing it with some of my sites (it takes a couple of minutes to add the code), and it does indeed make a huge difference. I’m sure we’re all aware of Googles push to use site speed in their algorithm, so I thought you’d find this method to speed up your site by 3 to 4 times using a couple of lines of code interesting. I think it’ll work with any site, but it’s particularly useful if you’re using a cumbersome CMS like Wordpress (I think this site is Wordpress?). Essentially if your host has zlib compression enabled you can add 2 lines of code above the document type in your header.php, and when a visitors browser calls the pages, your server will automatically compress them and send the compressed file to their browser. I don’t want to go into too much detail here, so if you search for it in Google you should find various sites with instructions. I’ve been testing it with some of my sites (it takes a couple of minutes to add the code), and it does indeed make a huge difference.

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