.css and .js files before you send them to a client. This speeds up your site like crazy!.css and .js files before you send them to a client. This speeds up your site like crazy!
FWIW, this is how I configure Apache to set the Expires header:
Header unset ETag FileETag None Header unset Last-Modified Header set Expires "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT" Header set Cache-Control "public, no-transform"The reason I remove and disable the ETag is because supposedly some browsers will ignore your Expires header when it's present:
The reason I remove the Last-Modified header is for the same reason:
The reason I set the Cache-Control header to 'public' is so the browser will cache media over HTTPS (see tip #3):
The reason I set the Cache-Control header to 'no-transform' is to prevent proxies from modifying my content.
--Bil
This goes in your root .htaccess file but if you have access to httpd.conf that is better.
This code uses the FilesMatch directive and the SetOutputFilter DEFLATE directive to only target files ending in .js or .css
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Compress everything except images # Insert filter SetOutputFilter DEFLATE # Netscape 4.x has some problems... BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # Don't compress images SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary