Add notes about GZIP to Docs or Installation Instructions?

[jpdevries]

Over at modxcms/revolution#12538 we've been discussing the compression settings and how they effect performance and optimization.

While concatenating and minifying the files is good (if done on the front end never if done on the back end) the truth is that enabling GZIP compression alone will have a more significant benefit. In other words, you're better of serving unminified flat files that are GZIPed than you are minified ones that aren't.

So anyways, I don't think MODX can automatically enable GZIP on people's servers but I was wondering if maybe it is worth a note in the docs...

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/optimizing-content-efficiency/optimize-encoding-and-transfer?hl=en

[amdbuilder]

Technically, they could enable gzip on servers by adding this to the main .htaccess file:

<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript
</ifmodule>

The beauty of that code being the conditionals, so if the server supports gzip your good and if not no harm no foul.