Enable GZIP compression for Magento 2 Website on Apache/Linux to Make it Load Faster

What is GZIP ?

Gzip is a data compression algorithm capable of compressing and decompressing files quickly.

How can enabling GZIP can make a website load faster?

Websites are getting larger and carry a lot of content that can be compressed and save bandwidth during transmission over the networks. Compressing large text format files like javascript and css can save a lot of bandwidth thus improving loading speeds.

Using GZIP on a website

On Apache web server gzip compression is utilized to compress the outgoing traffic via mod_deflate. To use GZIP on a website mod_deflate must be installed, enabled and loaded with Apache.You can check of mod_deflate status by running below command in the linux terminal.>sudo httpd -M | grep deflateif mod_deflate is installed and enabled, you should see deflate_module (shared). 

Table of Contents

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.
Name

Send us your requirement

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.
Your Requirements
(optional)