Loading speed is still a common issue for many websites from small to big today. If your website takes longer than 2 seconds to load, then it most people will leave your website and go elsewhere without a second thought – and will never again return to your website.<\/p>\n
There’s also another consequence to slow loading times, Google are now using loading times as a ranking factor on search results. So, if your competitors have faster loading times, then chances are there website could rank higher than yours in search engine results – potentially costing you a great amount of traffic. Below are some quick ways of increasing your loading times with .htaccess:<\/p>\n
# Enable GZIP compression\r\n<IfModule mod_gzip.c>\r\n mod_gzip_on Yes\r\n mod_gzip_dechunk Yes\r\n mod_gzip_item_include file \\.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$\r\n mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$\r\n mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text\/.*\r\n mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application\/x-javascript.*\r\n mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image\/.*\r\n mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*\r\n<\/IfModule>\r\n\r\n# mod_deflate\r\nAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html text\/plain text\/xml text\/css text\/javascript application\/javascript\r\n\r\n# enable keep-alive\r\n<ifModule mod_headers.c>\r\n Header set Connection keep-alive\r\n<\/ifModule>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n