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Check and Use GZIP Compression through PHP

gzip compression is using for increase website speed and save server bandwidth. Read the below points to add gzip compression in your website: 1. Ask Hosting server provider to enable  gzip compresssion . 2. Compress all the css and js file using  7-zip  e.g. if your css file name is style.css it will save as style.css.gz. 3. Upload all the file on live server and set Content Encode GZIP to .gz files 4. Define  gzip global variable  in your common php file (remember the common file will include in all the php file into your website) $gzip_string=""; if (substr_count($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"], "gzip")) { $gzip_string=".gz"; }else{ $gzip_string=""; } 5. Put defined variable in all your script and style including in your php pages e.g. <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/my-style-file.css<?php echo $gzip_string;?>" /> <script type="text/javascript"