Save Bandwidth and Loading Times
18th March 2007The number one turn off for a website has to be loading times. If your server supports mod_expires you can improve your loading times by 66%, as well as saving your self bandwidth.
| Page | Loading Time |
| index.php - No Cache | 1.03 seconds |
| index.php - Cached | 79 milliseconds |
As you can see from the results i recorded its a massive saving on page loading times, and if you check in the best thing that happened to firefox for developers, FireBug my page loads in 31 milliseconds and the google statistics adds the other milliseconds.
The code
.HTACCESS
# Enable caching
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A86400
# 61 days
ExpiresByType image/png A5259487
ExpiresByType image/gif A5259487
# 28 days
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2419200
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2419200
ExpiresByType text/css A2419200
# 3 days
ExpiresByType text/plain A259200
ExpiresByType text/html A259200
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A86400
# 61 days
ExpiresByType image/png A5259487
ExpiresByType image/gif A5259487
# 28 days
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2419200
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2419200
ExpiresByType text/css A2419200
# 3 days
ExpiresByType text/plain A259200
ExpiresByType text/html A259200
Its pretty simple to understand. The expire date is in seconds so what i done was use google. Example Here
Hope it helps you, its helped me