performance

I was working on tuning the performance of a site that happened to be hosted on a shared hosting provider - Dreamhost in this case. One of the simplest things you can do to improve performance is enable Gzip compression for HTTP requests. This is supported in all modern browsers and provides a quick win by reducing the size of HTTP responses and, therefore, improving response times. The instructions on how to enable this will vary based on your web server and the level of control you have. …