As one of our tips for optimizing Joomla sites, we recommend that you enable GZIP compression to speed up loading times.
You can enable GZIP compression in the global configuration of Joomla:
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All you need to do is to enable the setting in the server settings and save the new configuration assuming your host offers this option (most do) .
To see the compression ratio with GZIP enabled, you can visit this website. Just type in the url of your website and check the results online.
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With GZIP enabled, we accomplished a 72.7% compression resulting in faster loading times.
