Optimizer For Faster Websites vs Speed Up – Browser Caching

With this Plugin you can activate Browser Caching and GZIP Compression on your Apache Webserver. With Browser Caching you can tell Browsers when your files usually change, e.g. every month, every week, etc. This will speed up your website because Browser will only make requests to your Server after the declared time. PageSpeed is a Google Ranking Factor so it is important to have a fast website. There a several ways to enable Browser Caching. This Plugin uses Expires. The following code will be added to your .htaccess file: ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType text/javascript “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType text/html “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType application/xhtml-xml “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 month” ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 month” With GZIP Compression your files will be compressed before they get sent to the client. This also makes your Website faster. The following code will be added to your .htaccess file: Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/html text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon application/json DEFLATE by extension AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css htm html xml

This small plugin (10 Kb) enables browser caching in your Apache web server and help browser to cache a local copy of static files and improve page load times. Configurations are not required! You just have to install it and after the plugin does it all, none further action it’s required.