Title: [Plugin: WP Faster Cache] Leverage Browser Caching
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Faster Cache] Leverage Browser Caching

 *  [posword](https://wordpress.org/support/users/posword/)
 * (@posword)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-faster-cache-leverage-browser-caching/)
 * With WP Faster Cache running, the GTMetrix rating for browser caching on my site
   is a miserable 15 (F).
 * The explanation reads “The following cacheable resources have a short freshness
   lifetime. Specify an expiration at least one week in the future for the following
   resources:” (but it doesn’t tell me how to specify them) and 11 resources are
   listed with “expiration not specified” after them. These are css, js, jpg, png
   files.
 * Is there a setting for WP Faster Cache to correct this, or is it done in the .
   htaccess file, or somewhere else in WordPress?
 * GTMetrix on their browser cacheing explanation page has about a dozen lines for
   a .htaccess file to indicate expiration times for different types of files:
 *     ```
       ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
       ExpiresActive On
       ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * However, WP Faster Cache already has directives in the .htaccess file:
 *     ```
       <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|shtml)$">
       FileETag None
       <ifModule mod_headers.c>
       Header unset ETag
       Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
       Header set Pragma "no-cache"
       Header set Expires "Mon, 29 Oct 1923 20:30:00 GMT"
       </ifModule>
       </FilesMatch>
       ```
   
 * I have no idea what these mean or why they seem limited to html,htm,shtml files.
   Can someone give me a recommendation on how to improve this function?
 * Thanks,
    Peter My hosting company definitely has mod_headers.c running on the
   server.

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 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-faster-cache-leverage-browser-caching/)
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