I started to get preeettyyy annoyed by the bad performance of my blog. Did some research and decided just give the two lines a try in the .htaccess file
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
And, damn! It seems to work immediately and provide a major performance improvement. Why have I not done this before?
@Update:
Also added
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
# Now we have Expires: headers, ETags are unecessary and only slow things down:
FileETag None
</IfModule>
Just now I still have some performance issues, but I suspect that to be caused by the database server struggling, not the web server.