What is gZip compression?

Question

I have heard a lot that one should use gZip for their webpages for faster access and downloads, and that it also saves the bandwidth.

So what is thi

Answer 1

GZip Compress the files like html , js and css files while serving the request to the browser. As size of the file is reduced it is served to the user in faster manner. Not all the browser support compression but now all the modern browser support. It is highly recommended , but only one part is that it increases the CPU usages of the server which may be concern sometime. Using Gzip with client side caching will help in increasing the performance.