This concept is a bit like packing your suitcase for a trip, and I'll explain why.
Imagine you're going on a vacation and you want to fit as many clothes into your suitcase as possible. If you were to just throw everything in there, it would take up a lot of space. But if you carefully fold and compress your clothes, you can fit a lot more into the same suitcase.
GZIP compression works in a similar way, but with the files on your website. It's a method used to speed up the loading time of a site. Here's how it works:
1. Compression: When someone visits your website, the server that hosts your site compresses the files using GZIP. This includes compressing things like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files.
2. Transfer: The compressed files are then sent to the visitor's browser. Because they're compressed, they're smaller and therefore quicker to transfer over the internet.
3. Decompression: Once the compressed files arrive at the visitor's browser, they're decompressed, or "unpacked," so they can be read and displayed properly.
The whole process happens in the blink of an eye and is generally invisible to the user. But the result is a website that loads faster, providing a better experience for visitors. Search engines like Google also consider site speed as a ranking factor, so having a faster-loading site can also help with SEO.
In short, GZIP compression is like having a magic suitcase for your website that lets you pack more into it, without taking up extra space, allowing your website to travel faster to visitors.
