Title: Speeding up my site
Last modified: November 4, 2018

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# Speeding up my site

 *  [mrmckee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmckee/)
 * (@mrmckee)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-speed-2/)
 * I’ve been trying to speed up this website and one of the things it tells me to
   do is enable Gzip compression. I have downloaded a plugin that says it is doing
   this yet this report still tells me it is not enabled? Any ideas?
 * [https://gtmetrix.com/reports/excelheating.co.uk/G7LhuhWN](https://gtmetrix.com/reports/excelheating.co.uk/G7LhuhWN)
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwordpress-speed-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-speed-2/#post-10846982)
 * Please see this help guide: [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization)
 *  [Dion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diondesigns/)
 * (@diondesigns)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-speed-2/#post-10847060)
 * First, deactivate the bwp-minify plugin you installed, and also remove the Google
   Translate stuff. Both of these are causing issues on your site.
 * Then add the following to the top of your .htaccess file:
 *     ```
       <FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpg|png|gif|svg|js|css|txt|woff|xml|html)$">
       	Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=1209600"
       </FilesMatch>
       <IfModule deflate_module>
       	<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|svg|html|htm|xml|php)$">
       		SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
       	</FilesMatch>
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * Do not add the above inside the `# BEGIN WORDPRESS / # END WORDPRESS` block!
 * Now re-test at GTMetrix. If it still shows that some site resources are not being
   compressed, contact your host and find out whether your hosting plan support 
   GZip compression.
 * If things are now working, delete the bwp-minify plugin as it’s not needed.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Dion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diondesigns/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-speed-2/#post-10847060)
 * Status: not resolved

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