By melvinneo
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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Hi, <br>You have to make some change sin your .htaccess file <br>You can check following tutorial for details. <br>http://gtmetrix.com/leverage-browser-caching.html <br> <br>thank you
Hey Ray and Mamal,
<br>
<br>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:
<br>
<br>## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<br><IfModule mod_expires.c>
<br>AddType ‘text/html; charset=UTF-8’ html
<br># Add correct content-type for fonts
<br> AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
<br> AddType font/ttf .ttf
<br> AddType font/otf .otf
<br> AddType font/x-woff .woff
<br> AddType image/svg+xml .svg
<br>ExpiresActive On
<br>ExpiresByType image/jpg “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 month”
<br>ExpiresByType application/pdf “access plus 1 month”
<br>ExpiresByType text/x-javascript “access plus 1 month”
<br>ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 month”
<br>ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access plus 1 month”
<br>ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access plus 1 month”
<br>ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresByType font/ttf “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresByType font/otf “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresByType font/x-woff “access plus 1 year”
<br>ExpiresDefault “access plus 2 days”
<br></IfModule>
<br>## EXPIRES CACHING ##
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