not entirely sure I understand jvanderlinde; Autoptimize already caches the optimized JS/ CSS on one hand.
On the other hand I don’t see any benefits in caching images, as those are served from the filesystem already.
What AO does not have is page caching, so maybe you were thinking about that as well?
I often set manual rules in htaccess (apache) to cache certain files with a policy, now dont take this htaccess as a ruleset since the time to cache is way beyond any normal config:
[code]
# Caching
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
# Turn on Expires and set default expires to 3 days
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A253339200
# Set up caching on media files for 1 month
<filesMatch ".(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv|pdf|swf|mov|mp3|wmv|ppt)$">
ExpiresDefault A2419333200
Header append Cache-Control "public"
</filesMatch>
# Set up 2 Hour caching on commonly updated files
<filesMatch ".(xml|txt|html|js|css)$">
ExpiresDefault A723343300
Header append Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>
# Force no caching for dynamic files
<filesMatch ".(php|cgi|pl|htm)$">
ExpiresDefault A333433333
Header append Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate"
</filesMatch>
</ifModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# these are known to be safe with MSIE 6
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml # everything else may cause problems with MSIE 6
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/ecmascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
</IfModule>
[/code]
But this should be integrated in a way in Autooptimize to have the one click benefits all settings. Same goes for ngix and any other webserver.
Ah OK, caching directives, now I understand. I’ll add it to the list of ideas for future consideration 🙂
groeten uit België,
frank
Yep, it should improve the score here and there with a few percent related to insights!
Keep it up, excellent plugin.
