Use this tool to check whether you have GZIP compression enabled.
Simply put, GZIP compression ensures that smaller files are sent to your browser. Think of files ending in .zip and .rar—these are files that have been made smaller by compressing them into a ZIP file. These smaller files improve your website’s loading speed, which in turn helps you rank higher in Google. After all, faster loading speed is a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm. To make the example a bit more practical, let’s look at the file size in kilobytes (KB). Suppose you have a 100-KB file; with GZIP compression, you can reduce that file to just 10 KB. That’s quite a significant difference, don’t you think? GZIP compression is one of the many components of technical SEO and will help you lay a solid foundation for your SEO.
We can imagine that you might not know whether your website uses GZIP compression. After all, when launching a website, there are so many things to keep in mind. That’s why we’ve developed this GZIP compression checker that can verify this for you right away. Enter your URL into the GZIP compression tool, and you’ll immediately see if everything is correct. If everything is correct, you’ll see the following message:
GZIP is enabled for the URL https://smartranking.nl/.
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