{"id":1810,"date":"2010-05-10T23:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2010-05-10T23:37:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:37:28","slug":"enabling-website-compression-to-reduce-bandwidth-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/enabling-website-compression-to-reduce-bandwidth-use.htm","title":{"rendered":"Enabling website compression to reduce bandwidth use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of steady growth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/\">markwilson.it<\/a> has seen a small drop in the number of blog subscribers in recent months.\u00c2\u00a0 To me this means one of two things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perhaps RSS is no longer the most useful way to consume blog content\u00c2\u00a0(for example, I rarely read RSS feeds these days and rely instead on what friends, peers\u00c2\u00a0and industry contacts &#8220;talk&#8221; about on Twitter to 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though, as my blog output has dropped significantly, and my subscribers have dropped (ever so slightly), my bandwidth usage has continued to rise &#8211; to the point that my hosting provider actually dropped the site returning a &#8220;bandwidth exceeded&#8221; message to readers recently (thankfully, this was resolved within a very short time of me noticing and bringing it to their attention).\u00c2\u00a0 When I started to look into this, I found that the biggest jump in bandwidth usage related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/major-wordpress-update-completed.htm\">my upgrade from WordPress 2.2 to 2.9 in January<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t understand why the same database, same theme, etc. running on a new version of WordPress would result in a significant increase in bandwidth usage until I saw that WordPress no longer contains an option to compress content for clients that support it, or, in WordPress parlance: &#8220;WordPress now leaves compression as a decision for the server&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are loads of plugins out there to enable GZIP compression on WordPress 2.5 and later; however I found that the WordPress guys are right &#8211; the simplest way is often\u00c2\u00a0to let the web server handle the compression &#8211; after all, I&#8217;d like to compress content (and save bandwidth) for all of my content, regardless of whether it&#8217;s served from WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>I found the answer in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryansgoblog.com\/\">Ryan Williams<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/austinmatzko.com\/2008\/02\/22\/wordpress-gzip-plugin\/#comment-194566\">comment on a post at Il Filosofo<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; by adding a few lines to my .htaccess file (after checking that my host has the deflate module enabled in Apache), I saw a 72% reduction in the bandwidth required to serve my home page.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the code I added:<\/p>\n<p><dirtycode:noclick>AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/html text\/css 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