WPPS Toolbox Performance Optimization – .htaccess Caching Rules

Status: ✅ Performance optimization rules have been successfully applied to your .htaccess file.

What Was Implemented:

1. Expires Headers

• Images: Cached for 1 year (reduces server requests for static images)
• CSS/JS: Cached for 1 month (balances caching with updates)
• Fonts: Cached for 1 year (fonts rarely change)
• Media: Cached for 1 year (videos/audio rarely change)
• Documents: Cached for 1 month
• HTML: Cached for 1 week (allows for content updates)

2. Browser Caching Headers

• Sets optimal Cache-Control headers for different file types
• Enables ETags for better cache validation
• Adds Vary header for better compression handling

3. Gzip Compression

• Compresses text-based files (HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, XML)
• Reduces bandwidth usage by up to 70%
• Improves page load speeds significantly

Performance Benefits:

• Faster page loads: Cached resources load from browser cache instead of server
• Reduced server load: Fewer requests to your server
• Better SEO scores: Improved Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed scores
• Lower bandwidth costs: Compressed files use less bandwidth
• Better user experience: Faster, more responsive website

Technical Details:

The caching rules have been automatically added to your root .htaccess file and include:

• mod_expires configuration for optimal cache timing
• mod_headers setup for Cache-Control directives
• ETags enabled for efficient cache validation
• mod_deflate compression for all text-based content

Performance optimization completed by WPPS Toolbox plugin.