{"id":396,"date":"2019-11-20T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=396"},"modified":"2020-11-05T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T13:49:12","slug":"how-can-i-enable-gzip-compression","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/how-can-i-enable-gzip-compression\/","title":{"rendered":"Activate GZIP compression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">GZIP compression ensures that your website will load faster. Why? When a visitor types the address of a page in their browser, the browser sends that request to display the page to our server hosting the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">When GZIP is not active, our server searches for the page that will send it, and the browser will show it to the visitor. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">When GZIP is running, our server finds the page, compressing it, and then sending it. The browser, if it supports GZIP compression like most do, will decompress the page and show it to the visitor. It seems like more work, but all this happens in no time and the compressed data is sent faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">How do you activate GZIP compression?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Follow these steps in the <\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/my.easyhost.be\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">control panel<\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Go to \u201cMy products\u201d &gt; \u201cWeb hosting\u201d &gt; Click on the button \u201cManage hosting\u201d to the right of your domain name.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Select \u201cPerformance &amp; Caching\u201d in the menu on the left.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">You will see the GZIP compression slider there. Switch it on.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Do you want to try this out? Then go to this site: http:\/\/www.whatsmyip.org\/http-compression-test\/<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-05-at-3.47.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2316\" height=\"1130\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--alert   hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tNote: This option is not available for Windows hosting.    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GZIP compression ensures that your website will load faster. Why? When a visitor types the address of a page in their browser, the browser sends that request to display the page to our server hosting the site. When GZIP is not active, our server searches for the page that will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[43,3],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/396\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}