You might have seen suggestion of enabling compression to speed up page load speed of WordPress website.There are a couple ways you can fix this warning. The first, and one of
the easiest is by using a caching plugin that supports enabling Gzip. You can just install WordPress caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or specific compression plugin
like GZip Ninja Speed Compression and enable HTTP (gzip) compression. As an alternate way, you can enable
Gzip compression by editing .htaccess file.
- Log into cPanel.
- Under Files section, select File Manager menu.
- cPanel will popup a message asking you
where you would like land within your website directories. In the same
window, you will see the checkbox asking if you would like to show
hidden files. Check the checkbox Show Hidden Files and click Go.
- Under public_html folder of your website, find and edit the file called .htaccess.
- Paste the following code into .htaccess file at the end of existing content.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
# Removing browser bugs for older browsers
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule>
- Save the changes.
