What is Compression?

Compression is, basically, where you grab a whole bunch of stuff and squish it into a smaller box. In this case, we can do it for our PHP scripts so that our pages load faster, remember, we are putting all our code into a smaller box, which means smaller file... which means faster...

What you should know

Yes, compressing your files may cause damage to them, on your computer, but, this is different as it is just a line of code that you add to the top of the page of your PHP files so you keep the original file on your server/HD, on the user end however, if you use to much compression, occasionally your files may look a little strange once rendered, on the next page you can find out what a reasonable compression level is.

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