Since we posted the FIFA World Cup Calendar 2010 on our company’s web site, traffic has increased dramatically.<\/p>\n
We have had over 3.5 million hits in 10 days.<\/p>\n
The problem was that the site was using more than 2 Gigs a day. In South Africa bandwidth is not cheap. Our site uses Joomla and even after enabling Gzip compression it did not help as only html\/php content was being compressed.<\/p>\n
Most of the traffic generated was because of the CSS & Javascript files<\/p>\n
The fix!<\/p>\n
I decided to modify the .htaccess file to compress all content outgoing on the webserver, our server uses mimimal load.<\/p>\n
These are the lines I added to my .htaccess<\/p>\n
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
\nAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text\/text text\/html text\/plain text\/xml text\/css application\/x-javascript application\/javascript
\n<\/ifmodule><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAlso this handy site allowed me to test various pages & files if the server was serving them compressed.<\/p>\n