How To Make Your Site Lightning Fast* By Compressing (deflate/gzip) Your HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, etc In Apache
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 was before compression was enabled on CSS and Javascript files (computed by YSlow):
And here it is after compression:
As you see, the difference is quite substantial – almost 30% savings.
Compressing your HTML, XML, Javascript, CSS, etc pages will mean less data transferred between the server and the …
How To List Files Within tgz (tar.gz) Archives
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tar -tzf file.tar.gz |
-t: lists files
-f: instructs tar to deal with the following filename (file.tar.gz)
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