Help with gzip

[gescom]

I recently made website for a friend via iWeb and stored onto dropbox under the public folder. He purchased the site name and we setup a url redirect with success.

Since then I am looking to optimize the site for speed and I read about gzip compression.

The question is how can I enable this? All my research is suggesting I cannot with the current setup or maybe I am just way off.

The website is www.turningleafcabins.com

I have checked it with Google Developer site and it comes back as not being gzipped. Any help is much appreciated.

 

[marcusj0015]

I'm not sure about how to enable it on the backend, but I do know that the browser has to advertise Gzip support / request gzipped resources.

Protip, have all of your static files, already gzipped, it makes serving them quicker.

 

[Dunmail]

Gzipping resources is just one aspect of site performance and not every resource needs gzipping - jpeg images are already compressed for example. I'd run YSlow over the site to see what other recommendations it has - you can get it as an add-on for both Chrome and Firefox.

Also check out the book "High Performance Web Sites" by Steve Souders.