Text Compression for Web Developers

Overview

Text Compression for Web Developers
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/txt-compression/

Think Mobile First

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Pre-compress JS and CSS Files using Zopfli

https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/

Configure Apache to Serve Your Pre-compressed Files

Here's a snippet of Apache configuration that will serve out pre-compressed gzip files for javascript and css and set the proper Content-Type and Content-Encoding.

http://blog.codegrill.org/2009/07/how-to-pre-compress-static-files-in.html

Old Way: Configure Apache to Compress your Files Automatically

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-speed-compression.html