Will it speed up the Site Load?

[anks]

Folks,

 

I read somewhere that by putting the below code on top of index.php will speed up the site load.

 

<?php
ob_start ("ob_gzhandler");
header("Content-type: text/css; charset: UTF-8");
?>

 

As per them we can even put this code on CSS files, but how will CSS execute PHP? 

 

Thanks All!!!

 

 

[Daniel0]

Well, it will compress the output so there is less data to download.

[anks]

Well, it will compress the output so there is less data to download.

 

nice, but how can it be used for CSS files? Does CSS execute PHP?

[Daniel0]

No, it does not. You can configure your web server to compress the files instead of having PHP do it. If you use Apache you can use something like mod_deflate.

[xcoderx]

something like mod_deflate.

 

with php.ini or htaccess file? explain more please of its usage

[Mchl]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_deflate.html