Question

I am trying to create a htaccess file for my website and the pageSpeed insights has shown that there are images and one css file without expiration.

I am not sure where to start with this or how to do it, I have this code from a tutorial online and was wondering if this would be enough to work.

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
############################################
## Add default Expires header
## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Or does this code do what I need it to do?

Thanks

Answer 1

try something like

<IfModule mod_expires.c> 
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 86400 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 86400 seconds"
</IfModule>

or

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:gif|jpe?g|png|ico|css|js|swf)$">

  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"
  </IfModule>

</FilesMatch>