Added detailed instructions to enable gzip compression

README.md

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ A collection of useful .htaccess snippets, all in one place. I decided to create
     - [Compress Text Files](#compress-text-files)
     - [Set Expires Headers](#set-expires-headers)
     - [Turn eTags Off](#turn-etags-off)
+    - [Enable gzip Compression](#enable-gzip-compression)
 - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
     - [Set PHP Variables](#set-php-variables)
     - [Custom Error Pages](#custom-error-pages)
@@ -190,47 +191,6 @@ Require valid-user
 ```
 
 ## Performance
-### Compress Text Files
-``` apacheconf
-<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
-
-    # Force compression for mangled headers.
-    # http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping
-    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
-        <IfModule mod_headers.c>
-            SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
-            RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
-        </IfModule>
-    </IfModule>
-
-    # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types
-    # (for Apache versions below 2.3.7, you don't need to enable `mod_filter`
-    #  and can remove the `<IfModule mod_filter.c>` and `</IfModule>` lines
-    #  as `AddOutputFilterByType` is still in the core directives).
-    <IfModule mod_filter.c>
-        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
-                                      application/javascript \
-                                      application/json \
-                                      application/rss+xml \
-                                      application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
-                                      application/x-font-ttf \
-                                      application/x-web-app-manifest+json \
-                                      application/xhtml+xml \
-                                      application/xml \
-                                      font/opentype \
-                                      image/svg+xml \
-                                      image/x-icon \
-                                      text/css \
-                                      text/html \
-                                      text/plain \
-                                      text/x-component \
-                                      text/xml
-    </IfModule>
-
-</IfModule>
-```
-[Source](https://h5bp.com)
-
 
 ### Set Expires Headers
 _Expires headers_ tell the browser whether they should request a specific file from the server or just grab it from the cache. It is advisable to set static content's expires headers to something far in the future. 
@@ -295,6 +255,56 @@ By removing the ETag header, you disable caches and browsers from being able to
 FileETag None
 ```
 
+### Enable gzip Compression
+
+Gzipping an easy way to reduce weight per page of your site.
+
+
+
+```apacheconf
+
+#For Apache 2.2
+
+# Compress Text, HTML , JS, CSS, XML:
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
+AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
+AddType x-font/otf .otf
+AddType x-font/ttf .ttf
+AddType x-font/eot .eot
+AddType x-font/woff .woff
+AddType image/x-icon .ico
+AddType image/png .png
+
+# For Apache 2.4 + 
+
+# Declare a filter, which runs after all internal filters like PHP or SSI
+FilterDeclare  gzip CONTENT_SET
+
+# The "gzip" filter can change "Content-Length", can not be used with range requests
+FilterProtocol gzip change=yes;byteranges=no
+
+# Enable "gzip" filter if "Content-Type" contains Text, HTML , JS, CSS, XML:
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/plain
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/html
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/css
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/javascript
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/javascript
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/x-javascript
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xhtml+xml
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/rss+xml
+FilterProvider gzip DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xml
+
+# Add "gzip" filter to the chain of filters
+FilterChain    gzip
+```
+[Source](http://softstribe.com/wordpress/enable-gzip-compression-in-wordpress)
 
 ## Miscellaneous