How to Optimize Magento for Faster Ecommerce

IfModule mod_deflate.c

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## 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 application/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