Make Wordpress Faster Part II
This is an addendum to Make Wordpress Load Much Faster. Just a few more tips to get more speed out of your Apache/Wordpress installation.
Turn on compression
Add this to your .htaccess file.
#Browser compression/decompression AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Set Expires in .htaccess
A first-time visitor to your page will make several HTTP requests to download all your sites files, but using the Expires and Cache-Control headers you make those files cacheable. This avoids unnecessary HTTP requests on subsequent page views.
To set your Expires headers add these lines to your .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault now ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 4 hours" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 4 hours" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 4 hours" ExpiresByType audio/mp3 "access plus 2 hours" ExpiresByType audio/x-m4a "access plus 2 hours" </IfModule>
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