Title: Proper header setting Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Proper header setting * [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/) * For some reason my [site](http://villasdiani.com/) lost half of its traffic and I try to identify causes. My worry is also wrongly configured header and as I am absolutely new to this I can’t realy say what is wrong there, but something is saying me there is something wrong:-( I also made [test on redbot](http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fvillasdiani.com%2F) and it says “This response is negotiated, but doesn’t have an appropriate Vary header” or it also says “This response allows all caches to store it” * This is my header: * ``` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx/1.4.6 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:05:35 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17 X-Pingback: http://villasdiani.com/xmlrpc.php Cache-Control: max-age=172800 Expires: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 06:05:35 GMT Content-Encoding: gzip ``` * Can somebody help me to set my header please? * Thank you very much, July Ronder Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [The Grey Parrots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greyparrots/) * (@greyparrots) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717677) * Hi, * As I can see your site got indexed properly in major Search Engine. * [http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test/index.php?c=1&url=http://villasdiani.com/](http://tools.seobook.com/general/spider-test/index.php?c=1&url=http://villasdiani.com/) * It might be some other issue. * Regards, PD * Thread Starter [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717682) * Thank you PD, I know my site is indexed. That is not my problem, my problem is that I think my header is wrong. * Thank you July * Thread Starter [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717683) * I also had a look on that tool you provided me and I realy do not understand why is it showing that 16% of my words are hover or color 1.54%…:-( * Another thing, it also shows that I have link on my site [http://mysite.com](http://mysite.com) without slash on the end, but I do not know where this link is coming from… Thank you July * [The Grey Parrots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greyparrots/) * (@greyparrots) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717684) * Because its here. * ``` .btn, .btn-big, .slides-prev:hover, span.favorites-remove:hover, .slides-next:hover, a#totop:hover, .wpcf7-submit, .mu_register input[type="submit"] { background-color: #bdbfbf; } a, h1 a, h2 a, h3 a, h4 a, h5 a, h6 a, .comments-title h3 a, #the404, .ts-paging a:hover { color: #27b7f0; } a:hover, h1 a:hover, h2 a:hover, .hentry h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover, h4 a:hover, h5 a:hover, h6 a:hover, .section-title a:hover, .comments-title h3 a:hover { color: #e3a11c; } ``` * And second one is here * ``` Villas Diani | Beach Accommodation in Kenya ``` * Thread Starter [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717696) * Oh, I guess this is bad:-( all that hover, or is that normal? * I guess also the domain without the slash is bad, should I change it for the one with slash? How? I guess also my head is wrongly configured for this:-( Can you help me with this please? * Thank you very much July * [Dave Naylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpranger/) * (@wpranger) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717703) * **@jronder** * From the Nginx docs: * > syntax: gzip_vary on | off; > default: gzip_vary off; context: http, server, > location > Enables or disables inserting the “Vary: Accept-Encoding” response header field > if the directives gzip, gzip_static, or gunzip are active. * So, adjust your nginx.conf file, or, speak with your hosts to get the setting enabled. * Thread Starter [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717711) * Thank you very much WPRanger, this sounds for me as Chinese. I have no idea what this means and even do not know what should I tell to hostgator to do:-( Do you think they will know if I just tell them enable the settings on nginx.conf file? And then what will change? Or what I have there wrong? * I am so sorry for all this stupid questions, but please understand I am very new to this:-( * thank you very much! July * [Dave Naylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpranger/) * (@wpranger) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717734) * If you’re on shared hosting at Hostgator I doubt they’d change the global server configuration for just one customer. Worth a try I suppose but I doubt they’d do it. * [Dave Naylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpranger/) * (@wpranger) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717752) * Just to confuse you even more, and after looking at your [.htaccess topic](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/redirect-remove-itself-from-httacces-file?replies=1), I think hostgator are using Nginx as a front-end proxy to Apache. You don’t need to worry about that, it’ll be for a performance tweak. However, it may be confusing Redbot. So it’s possible that your original concern is actually unfounded. * If that does confuse you, don’t worry, it happens 🙂 * Thread Starter [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * (@villas-diani) * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717855) * Thank you very much, but I am totally lost:-( Does that mean that my headers are correct? A long time ago i was using cloudflare, can that have something in common? I hope not. * [@the](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the/) Grey Parrots where can I adjust that link going to my home page without the slash please? I guess it is not correct have it without the slash:-( * Thank you very much, July Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Proper header setting’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [jronder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/villas-diani/) * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-header-setting/#post-4717855) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics