I did and I placed the gzip code under wp super cache end in htaccess in between wp begin worked fine much faster too. here is the code you don’t need the plugin
# GZip Ninja Speed — Starts here
# Do not write anything between “GZip Ninja Speed — Starts” and “GZip Ninja Speed — Ends”
# It will be deleted while uninstalling GZip Ninja Speed plugin
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/otf .otf #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/ttf .ttf #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/eot .eot #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/woff .woff #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType image/x-icon .ico #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType image/png .png #GZip Ninja Speed
# GZip Ninja Speed — Ends here
# GZip Ninja Speed — Starts here
# Do not write anything between “GZip Ninja Speed — Starts” and “GZip Ninja Speed — Ends”
# It will be deleted while uninstalling GZip Ninja Speed plugin
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript #GZip Ninja Speed
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/otf .otf #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/ttf .ttf #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/eot .eot #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType x-font/woff .woff #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType image/x-icon .ico #GZip Ninja Speed
AddType image/png .png #GZip Ninja Speed
# GZip Ninja Speed — Ends here
Thank you very much! I know what I’ll be doing tonight – editing and benchmarking! (Hope I have enough, but not too much, beer.)
Too fast for me to benchmark. However, http://www.webpagetest.org still says that the transfer compression isn’t enabled on my site.
Do I need WordPress/Apache to be restarted for this to take effect?
Thanks!