It really does work
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Increased my site speed and rating about 20%. On other sites with heavy CSS and JS it did better.
I also use .htaccess code to gzip/zip thes file types js/css/txt/html which boosted the response time further.
Furthermore, add caching and you’ll have a site that will be more responsive.Here’s my secret code that doubles up the gains.
# compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML
# the server needs to support compression
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript# Turn on Expires and set default expires to 3 days
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A259200# Set up caching on media files for 1 week
<FilesMatch “\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv|pdf|swf|mov|mp3|wmv|ppt)$”>
ExpiresDefault A604800
Header append Cache-Control “public”
</FilesMatch># Set up 2 days caching on commonly updated files
<FilesMatch “\.(xml|txt|html|js|css)$”>
ExpiresDefault A193000
Header append Cache-Control “private, must-revalidate”
</FilesMatch>
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