Add Expires Headers

  • Resolved ritiriwaz

    (@ritiriwaz)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    When doing the GTMetrix performance test, the results under YSlow says ‘Add Expires Headers”.
    However, in the W3 Total Cache setting for Browser cache, I have checked ‘Add Expires Headers”. Why do I still get this error?

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    5 years, 6 months ago

    Hello @ritiriwaz

    Thank you for your inquiry and I am happy to assist you with this.
    I’ve checked the Gtmetrix report and I can see what you are referring to.
    Unfortunately, there are some things that W3 Total Cache as powerful as it is, or any other plugin cannot handle and those are external resources. Those resources ( Google, Facebook, Linkedin, youtube, etc.) are being loaded on your website but they are coming from the server other than yours. This means that W3 Total Cache cannot affect those files because W3TC is only dealing with the files coming from your server (Theme, Plugins files, etc.) This however does not impact the user experience on your website and the speed of your website, but testing tools are showing this as a general rule that those assets do not have expiration or need to be deferred, like JS or CSS.

    The only solution for this is to host those files on your server which can prove to be more work than gain. More than 90% of the websites today have external resources loading on the website.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter ritiriwaz

    (@ritiriwaz)

    5 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks

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