Leverage Browser Caching To Improve Site Speed

Leverage Browser Caching To Improve Site Speed Make Money Online Queries? Struggling To Get Traffic To Your Blog? Sign Up On (HBB) Forum Now!Leverage Browser Caching To Improve Site SpeedUpdated On 17/04/2017Author : Pradeep KumarTopic : WordPressShort URL : http://hbb.me/2oz78Ik CONNECT WITH HBB ON SOCIAL MEDIA Follow @HellBoundBlogThe phrase Leverage Browser Caching actually means that different items on your site should have different expire times set. This is recommended by Google, and it will improve your overall Google Page Speed Score. If you have installed W3 Total Cache then you can check your sites Page Speed score on your dashboard itself. We have shared lots of tips to improve website loading speed, and this is one of the simplest one.Some tips to tweak your sites speedUse PHP Flush To Improve Site Loading SpeedHOW TO: Setup Google Analytics To Check Site SpeedHOW TO: Get Google Page Speed Report Via W3 Total Cache7 Free Best Tools To Check Website Loading SpeedHow to Leverage Browser CachingFind your .htaccess file , open it with any text editor (Notepad for instance) and add these codes below. Then save it.## EXPIRES CACHING ## ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/jpg access 1 year ExpiresByType image/jpeg access 1 year ExpiresByType image/gif access 1 year ExpiresByType image/png access 1 year ExpiresByType text/css access 1 month ExpiresByType application/pdf access 1 month ExpiresByType text/x-javascript access 1 month ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash access 1 month ExpiresByType image/x-icon access 1 year ExpiresDefault access 2 days ## EXPIRES CACHING ##[Code Updated. If you still get an error, check this post]READHOW TO: Setup Google Analytics To Check Site SpeedWhat This Code Actually Does?It will instruct the browser to cache different static resources like images, flash, PDF, JavaScript and icons for some specified period of time. You can also increase or decrease the values depending on your specific requirements. By configuring your web server to set caching headers for cacheable static resources, your site will appear to load much faster.Do you know any other simple tips to improve site loading speed? Kindly share them in comments below.