Enable gzip compression in CRE Loaded
To improve response time of web page to visitor, it is highly recommended that web page should be compressed with gzip. Compression reduces response times by reducing the size of the HTTP response. YSlow and PageSpeed rate this as very important aspect of performance. To see how gzip compression works see my other post about gzip compression.
According to Yahoo, Gzip is the most popular and effective compression method currently available and generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Good thing about gzip is that almost 90% of browsers support this compression.
CRE Loaded already have built in system to enable gzip compression for pages. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled easily. To enable gzip go to admin area and click on “Configuration” > “GZip Compression” menu. Here you can enable gzip compression by editing “Enable GZip Compression” configuration.
To test gzip compression you can use this tool http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php. You can also use YSlow to confirm gzip.
nice post. thanks.