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How To Enable GZIP Compression in WordPress for Free_ Performance Guide 🚀
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Nov 6, 2023
Boost your WordPress website's loading speed with this comprehensive performance guide video. Learn how to enable GZIP compression for free, a powerful technique to reduce the size of your web files and enhance page load times. Whether you're a website owner or developer, this tutorial will walk you through the process step by step. Supercharge your site's performance and user experience, and watch your pages load faster than ever before. Join us in this tutorial to make your website's performance skyrocket! 🚀
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What's up guys here's Claudio from visual model WordPress themes and in today's video
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gonna learn how to enable GZIP compression into your WordPress website for free and why you should
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do this let's start on the why normally this is a raw file type that you most compress in order to
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game performance in order to make faster for the user to download files from your server
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to load the files for the browser to show the files. Okay. And this is a very common issue that
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you used to see not enable it when you try to optimize your website for a better performance
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and faster loading times. Okay. It's very easy to enable this IP compression into your WordPress
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website you can you have a couple of plugins in order to do it so you can do this for free simple
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and also optimize the speed improve the website experience and the search engine rankings and
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performance score we're gonna use this tool right here the gift of speed to check if the compression
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it's enabled or not okay so let's start enabling it i'm gonna leave a link in the description below
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for the guide where we do explain how to do this, but the process is pretty much simple okay We can go to our WordPress dashboard okay I always like to start the videos on the dashboard to make it equal for everyone And before we can continue please take a moment to hit the subscribe button
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So let's get it started. from the dashboard review the left side of menu and you screw it down until you
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can see the plugins menu hover your mouse over it and click on add new right
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here into the search plugins field at the upper right corner we gonna type
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cache just like this okay screw it down just a little bit and this is the guy
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that we are looking for WP super catch as you can see it's activated in two
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million websites okay so we're gonna click on install activated it gonna
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redirects us to the plugins list of our WordPress website let's screw it down so
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you can find a plugin here is the WP super cache we can access the settings
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from here or from the settings left side menu left sidebar menu and WP super
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cache. I'm going to click on it. As you can see, the caching is off
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I'm going to set as on as recommended. OK. Let me update the status of updated Now I must go to the advanced tab okay next to the easy
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I'm gonna move to advanced tab and from here all we have to do it's this simple set compress page
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so they are served more quickly to visitors recommended compress is disabled by the full
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because some hosts have problems with compressed files. Switching it to on and off clears the cache
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We're going to click into this field right here. This is very important. This is the whole point of the guide
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Click on it. Scroll down, scroll down, scroll down and click on update status
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Simple, easy and fast. What else we have to do? Let's check if it's working or not
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Here is the site, Gift of Speed. you can do a lot of speed optimization optimization checks on your site apply
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your site right here click on test URL and GZ it's enabled okay as you can see
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it's up to 80% active compressive okay so it's a lot of compression level this
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This helps a lot the website optimization to speed and improve it Okay And as you can check we have we were capable to do this fast and for free And that is
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I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Feel free to use the comment section below in the case that you have any question
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And that is, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I see you tomorrow
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All the best
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