Optimize Blogger Template With gZip Compression | Blogging Tips

Gzip Compression is the best way to decrease the HTTP requests and thereby reducing page loading time. As you know, compression is the essential and most effective way to save bandwidth and to speed up the loading process. Likewise, in blogging/Blogspot, now modern browsers are being used almost by everyone. So Google has made this as a default or inbuilt feature for Bloggers so that your website will effectively work with all the latest browsers. Optimizing Blogger Template —
One of the readers asked me about how to enable GZIP compression on the blogger platform & how to increase blogger loading speed if too many scripts are added to the HTML? First of all, let me tell you, Google's Blogger product comes with In-Built gZip feature. So you don't have to implement anything to make use of it. But you should know what it is.

Wait, I'll explain to you how it works. Say suppose you request a file from the webserver and suppose it's of a 200KB size HTML file, your browser talks to the web server and asked for it. Web-server replies with a 200KB file and sends it back as a response to your request. When it comes back to you, your browser downloads the 200KB file and displays the result on your screen. Now, what gZip actually does in the above situation is, it compresses a file from 200KB to say 40KB at the server-side itself. And that compressed file is sent back to you like a response, your browser will then downloads compressed file i.e. 40KB instead of 200KB, unzip it and displays the same result on your screen.

You must note that managing your blog running at top speed is essential. I'll explain what Gzip compression is and why it matters to speed up the loading of your website.

Enabling gZip compression in blogger template to speedup page loading

You must enable the compression for the Blogger template HTML code to speed up the page loading time. The gzip compression for the blogger/Blogspot website will increase your blog speed by 150%.

Gzip Compression is the process of combining all the web files and the HTML code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) derived from the hosting server which sent to the browser. The compressed results are much smaller in size than the original files which are not compressed & stored at the server. Calling of smaller files will reduce the HTTP requests and this will improve the page loading of your website or blog.

GZIP compression increases the performance of your website and reduces its loading time.

Here we are going to see how gzip compression works & how you can enable gZip on your own blogger website.
In case you are using highly customized blogger template then you can manually enable gZip compression with the following steps:

1. Go to blogger dashboard >> Theme >> HTML code >> and find:
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3. Save the template.


4. Now you must test the gZip compression on your blog or website using following site:
Check gZip compression on your website.

Bottom Line

As a result of this, since it's a server sided compression method, it helps you boost page loading speed.

Browsers used by your viewers will always receive compressed files for all your HTML data and their browsers are smart or modern enough to unzip it and show your content on their screen.