magento Optimizing Magento For Speed Optimizing Magento Changing The .htaccess File
Example
Magento is a very popular eCommerce application. It offers a great deal of customization and abilities from initial install. Here are a few suggestions for optimizing a Magento installation.
Enabling Output Compression
In your .htaccess file for Magento you will find a section of text starting with the line,
<IfModule mod_deflate.c> and ending at </IfModule>
This section of code can be used to turn on Apache’s mod_deflate module, which provides compression for text, css, and javascript. You will want to uncomment (remove the # symbol) multiple lines so that it looks like this:
############################################
enable apache served files compression
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip
# Insert filter on all content
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Insert filter on selected content types only
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>
