Well looking around I found that speeding up your site would help a bit on Google rankings. So I found in YSlow and Page Speed that I need to 'leverage browser caching' and 'enable GZip compression'.
Fine. Well I know that this is implemented by modifying the .htacess file on my server. Well my .htacess file looks as belows:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
<ifModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/html A7200
ExpiresByType text/javascript A604800
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2592000
ExpiresByType text/css A2592000
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
</ifModule>
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset Last-Modified
Header unset ETag
FileETag MTime Size
</ifModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/xml text/css text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rdf+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/truetype font/opentype
</IfModule>
# END WordPressAfter doing it, still YSlow and Page speed say that I've not reached my goals (GZipping and Browser caching). Help!
I mean is the format of my .htacess file proper. Is there any tutorial I could refer? I also tried the the 'allow only your IP adress on the wp-admin directory' hack as well as the 'Protect your WordPress blog from hotlinking' one, but to no avail. Could anyone give a demo .htacess?
