YSlow & Improving Speed

FileETag MTime Size

# Turn on Expires and set default to 0

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresDefault A7200

# Set up caching on media files for 1 year

<FilesMatch “\.(flv|ico|pdf|avi|mov|ppt|doc|mp3|wmv|wav)$”>

ExpiresDefault A29030400

</FilesMatch>

# Set up caching on media files for 1 week

<FilesMatch “\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$”>

ExpiresDefault A604800

</FilesMatch>

# Set up 24 Hour caching on commonly updated files

<FilesMatch “\.(xml|txt|html|php|js|css)$”>

ExpiresDefault A86400

</FilesMatch>

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>

 mod_gzip_on Yes

mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes

mod_gzip_static_suffix .gz

AddEncoding gzip .gz

mod_gzip_update_static No

mod_gzip_command_version ‘/mod_gzip_status’

mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No

mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 512

mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 1048576

mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000

mod_gzip_min_http 1000

mod_gzip_handle_methods GET POST

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^httpd/unix-directory$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.shtml$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.html$

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript$

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/javascript$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.js$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.css$

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-httpd-php$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$

mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$

mod_gzip_dechunk Yes

# DO NOT WASTE TIME COMPRESSING IMAGES

mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.$

mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/

mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader Content-Type:image/*

</IfModule>