Save Bandwidth and Loading Times
18th Mar 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 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