So while I'm changing my website and adding a few bits to it I thought I'd optimise it too. After running it through a few online tools I settled on using GTMetrix. This is mostly/all new territory for me! One of the suggestions was to GZip my Javascript files. After reading through a lot of things that didn't really make sense to me (not very beginner friendly at all) I came across Zbugs. This produced 2 GZip files for all of my Javascript and CSS but I really am not sure how to implement them and can't seem to find any documentation. I am using TSOHost (Linux) and can't find much on their forum so I am kind of assuming (although I haven't yet looked) that this should already be set up as it is a relatively noob friendly hosting package. Could anyone could point me in the right direction of what exactly I do with these files? Is it a simple case of linking them (the GZ file)in the head to the right place and letting the host do the rest?
Hmm I'm not sure how to answer your exact question but this might be of interest. I personally use .htaccess commands to compress my necessary files and let the web server handle it all. The commands I use are : Code: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript This way I dont have to worry about zipping up any of my files because my web server does it.
Oh You'll have to check your get requests using something like Firebug to check if the http header is receiving the deflate commands though. It's on the "net" panel.
