How to enable Gzip compression for a WordPress website

What's Gzip and why do I need it enabled on my site. Gzip as Wikipedia pithily puts it is. a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.. Bear in mind that it's a dotfile which means it might be hidden by default on both the remote server and your own machine if you copy the file to it. If on the other hand you're looking at a something more like the unhappy screenshot below then it's time to roll up our virtual sleeves a little further Oh dear. further work is required. What this means for you is that this isn't a setting you'll be fiddling with in WordPress it's something you need to change at the server level. If you see a message such as the following you can basically stop reading here and get back to cranking out great content for your users Congratulations.  Read more