Title: [tip] Reduce WordPress Bandwidth Usage!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# [tip] Reduce WordPress Bandwidth Usage!

 *  [lonewolfonline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lonewolfonline/)
 * (@lonewolfonline)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tip-reduce-wordpress-bandwidth-usage/)
 * I was going through my logs a while back, and noticed that a large proportion
   of my bandwidth is taken up by a few WordPress files, namely prototype.js and
   effects.js.
 * I have been serving these files and a few others using GZip compression in PHP
   and have noticed a huge decrease in my bandwidth. Page load times are also decreased.
 * If anybody is interested in adding GZip compression to javascript files, css,
   html, php, or an other text file I have written a short tutorial on my site: 
   [http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/knowledgebase/php_reduce-wordpress-bandwidth-usage/](http://lonewolf-online.net/computers/knowledgebase/php_reduce-wordpress-bandwidth-usage/)
 * I hope this can be of use to others as well!
 * Regards
 * Tim

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## Tags

 * [compression](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/compression/)
 * [effects](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/effects/)
 * [gzip](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gzip/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tip-reduce-wordpress-bandwidth-usage/)
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