Tag: page speed

Resolve Google Page Speed “Leverage Browser Caching” Problem

# Enable Compression
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
</IfModule>


<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
  mod_gzip_on Yes
  mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
  mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
  mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>


# Leverage Browser Caching
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
  ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  <filesmatch "\.(ico|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|swf)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2678400, public"
  </filesmatch>
  <filesmatch "\.(html|htm)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, private, must-revalidate"
  </filesmatch>
  <filesmatch "\.(pdf)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public"
  </filesmatch>
  <filesmatch "\.(js)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2678400, private"
  </filesmatch>
</IfModule>

How to Optimize Your Website And Obtain a Google Page Speed of 98-100?

First, please backup your files before you start modifying anything I write in this post.

Thank You!

First, why you should follow my advice? Well, almost anyone can tell you that a fast website is a good website and a good website is a mobile and desktop 100% compatible website but, as a developer, you need to test your site with Google’s Page Speed tool(https://developers.goo…).

Obtaining a good grade there can help your search engine traffic… So, what Google Page Speed score your project gets?

I’ve done a few projects with 98-99 out of 100, and a few with perfect 100.

I will list here a few “secrets” I used to boost my grade from 68/100 to 99/100.

1. Use only inline CSS

You need to use only inline css, period. Don’t link to any external frameworks(Bootstrap, etc.), don’t link to any Google Fonts file, to any particular style…

If you want to be productive, you ca use PHP to include_once(“”); your css files into the interpreted file.

If you want to use fontawesome or Google Fonts, you can put fontawesome file before you close your </body> tag.

You can also modify the Google Fonts .css file and include it inline into your source via PHP. Also, you can remove all the Vietnamese or Greek fonts from the Google Fonts file and use only the Latin style, works with english projects and most of the languages.

2. Insert the .js files at the end of the file

This is no secret that, inserting the .js files before you close </body> tag can get you a good Page Speed grade.

3. Use Server Side compression(gzip)

This is a pretty easy step, I provided instructions here on another post on how to do that.

4. Optimize images

Don’t exaggerate with images, use a low resolution image thumbnail, I use only < 10kb images. Specify the width and height of the image. You can use a free online tool to reduce the size of the images.

5. Minify css, js and html

This step gives anyone a lot of work if you are updating your site constantly… You can use free online tools to minify your css, html and js code.

6. Reduce the Server Response Time

Don’t load your server with requests, use, as much as you can only static content or make Ajax requests to content.

Bonus Point!

Transform your favicon in BASE64 text and include the code via PHP and get rid of a few connections that can slow down your website… I use this tool to convert my favicons: https://xaviesteve.co…

 

Hope this experience helps, try and play with this list and tell me your result.

Take a look at a sample page that I’ve recently made and got a great score: https://developers.google.com…