Having a sitemap on your website can help search engines find your pages more easily. If you don’t know how to create a sitemap you can use a free sitemap tool called WonderWebWare Sitemap Generator.
With this tool you can generate your sitemap in xml, txt or html format within minutes. After you have generated your sitemap, save it and upload it into your root directory (public_html).
Using gzip compression on your website can save you a lot of bandwidth and can also improve site speed. You can enable gzip compression on your website by simply adding the following code into your .htaccess file:
<ifModule mod_gzip.c> mod_gzip_on Yes mod_gzip_dechunk Yes mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$ mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$ mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.* mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.* mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.* mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.* </ifModule>
Please note that if your hosting provider does not allow mod_gzip on the server, this code won’t work. After you have added the code in .htaccess, you can check if gzip compression has been enabled with a free online tool called GIDZipTest.