Google PageSpeed Lowered

March 2, 2014 7k views
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Hey guys, I'm very new to this whole unmanaged VPS thing. So please bear with me a little. In the past, my site is hosted with a managed VPS hosting company and my Google PageSpeed scores were 100/100 for both mobile and desktop. But ever since moving to DO last night, it has reduced to 77 and 83 for mobile and desktop respectively. Old server PageSpeed: http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=http%3A%2F%2F96.30.15.156%2F~media Current PageSpeed with DO: http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=47media.com.sg I believe the speed reduction is because of caching issue which, for the life of me, don't know how to solve even after reading the tutorial here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-content-caching-using-apache-modules-on-a-vps Can some kind souls out there help, please? Thanks!
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raj March 2, 2014
Hi,
You have to make some change sin your .htaccess file
You can check following tutorial for details.
http://gtmetrix.com/leverage-browser-caching.html

thank you
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kamaln7 MOD March 2, 2014
Check out http://css-tricks.com/snippets/htaccess/set-expires/
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melvinneo March 2, 2014
Hey Ray and Mamal,

Thanks for your replies. But I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I've already had browser caching added to my .htaccess file since day 1. However, somehow it doesn't work with DO's server. I do not know what other settings must I change. Below are the browser caching I've written to my .htaccess file:

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' html
# Add correct content-type for fonts
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
AddType font/ttf .ttf
AddType font/otf .otf
AddType font/x-woff .woff
AddType image/svg+xml .svg
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/javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType font/ttf "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType font/otf "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType font/x-woff "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
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melvinneo March 2, 2014
Looks like the lines "" after ## EXPIRES CACHING ## and "" before ## EXPIRES CACHING ## got eaten up above.
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melvinneo March 2, 2014
Ah, the lines still got eaten up! I hope you guys know what I'm talking about. Let me give it a last shot. Here you go:
''
''
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melvinneo March 3, 2014
Looks like there's no way to put the lesser and greater than signs without them being eaten up. Anyway, here are the 2nd line (after the ## EXPIRES CACHING ## ):

IfModule mod_expires.c

and here's the 2nd last line (before ## EXPIRES CACHING ##):

/IfModule

Both lines are closed with the lesser and greater than signs.
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melvinneo March 3, 2014
Hey,

I managed to solve the problem. What I did was I enabled 'expires' in Apache.

Thanks, guys! :)
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