Speed Up and Save Your Website Bandwidth with GZip Compression


php, open source, open source software Why GZip compression can speed up your website?
With GZip compression enable it will compress data being sent out from your Web server, and have the browser decompress this data on the fly, thus reducing the amount of data sent and increasing the page display speed.

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Why Compress HTML?
HTML is used in most Web pages, and forms the framework where the rest of the page appears (images, objects, etc). Unlike images (GIF, JPEG, PNG) which are already compressed, HTML is just ASCII text, which is highly compressible.

How can i enable gzip compression?
You can install the apache mod_gzip module if you are familiar with server. Or, you can use PHP ob_gzhandler() function to achieve the same output.

The code below is getting from PHPBB forum:-

Save this file as “gzip_header.php”

< ?php $phpver = phpversion(); $useragent = (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]) ) ? $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] : $HTTP_USER_AGENT; if ( $phpver >= ‘4.0.4pl1′ && ( strstr($useragent,’compatible’) || strstr($useragent,’Gecko’) ) ) {
if ( extension_loaded(‘zlib’) ) {
ob_start(‘ob_gzhandler’);
}
} else if ( $phpver > ‘4.0’ ) {
if ( strstr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS[‘HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING’], ‘gzip’) ) {
if ( extension_loaded(‘zlib’) ) {
$do_gzip_compress = true;
ob_start();
ob_implicit_flush(0);
header(‘Content-Encoding: gzip’);
}
}
}
?>

Save this file as “gzip_footer.php”

< ?php $gzip_contents = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean(); $gzip_size = strlen($gzip_contents); $gzip_crc = crc32($gzip_contents); $gzip_contents = gzcompress($gzip_contents, 9); $gzip_contents = substr($gzip_contents, 0, strlen($gzip_contents) - 4); echo "\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"; echo $gzip_contents; echo pack('V', $gzip_crc); echo pack('V', $gzip_size); ?>

How to use?

< ?php include('gzip_header.php'); include('your_template_file.php'); include('gzip_footer.php'); ?>

Pros:
– page being compress and now have smaller file size
– It takes shorter time for user to download your file
– save more bandwidth

Cons:
– not all browser support gzip compression (most of the new browser support gzip)
– it takes a bit of server resources to do the compression

Credit: Webreference

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6 Responses to “Speed Up and Save Your Website Bandwidth with GZip Compression”

  1. MM Nauman says:

    Thank you man i was not knowing anything about gzip thanks for this post but how to use gzip

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  4. chear .. i must use this one in my vietnamese news, and other my portal forum site.. thanks

  5. chua says:

    this is really worth for trying.
    I’ve a page with original size 92k,
    after turn on the compression the size squeeze to 12k

    it’s really save a lot of bandwidth!

  6. Alex says:

    Cheers for this! will check it out durin the holidays.

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