Gzip is the most popular and effective compression method currently available and generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today's Internet traffic through browsers that claim to support gzip. Gzip is a server process that essentially compresses your files on the fly before transmission to the user. It is primarily used to compress text files such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with impressive results. GZip method was used in earlier version of apache (before apache 1.3). But after that apache introduced deflate method which is not much effective as Gzip (But still it is very good). But GZip is no more supported after apache 1.3. So in now a days you must have Apache greater than 1.3 and if not you must upgrade to latest version.…