gzip compression using .htaccess

You can compress static files such as image files (.jpg, .png, ....), Flash files (.swf), Style sheets (.css), Javascript (.js) to reduce size of fetched files and make pages load faster. You can do gzip compression on these files via .htaccess file   # 480 weeks <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$"> Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public" </FilesMatch> # …