2015-01-28
Enabling Gzip on your website is a great way to speed things up a little. Gzip can reduce your page sizes by over 70%, which in turn will allow your site to load faster. This could also have SEO benefits due to search engines like Google preferring faster sites, this could potentially allow your website to rank higher in search results.
Let us not kid ourselves here. Enabling Gzip is only one of many ways to speed up your site so don't expect your website to shoot to No.1 in the Google search results there are many factors Google take into consideration. But as they say...every little helps.
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