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How To Make Your Site Lightning Fast* By Compressing (deflate/gzip) Your HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, etc In Apache
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on June 9th, 2009 in CSS, JavaScript, Linux, Programming, Technology, Tutorials, Wordpress
Updated: June 10th, 2009
* Lightning Fast is a blatant exaggeration. Got you to look though, didn't it?
Introduction
Whether you are a web developer or a self-hosting business owner, the only excuse for not activating compression capabilities of your web server can be that you didn't know about it. And now that you are reading this, there is no excuse left at all.
Here is how big a single page of this blog…
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