speed up Magento using .htaccess file

Speed Magento with .htaccess file

1) Enable Gzip Compression For Magento

Gzip is a method of compressing files (reducing file’s size) for faster network transfers. In your htaccess file, find.  #php_flag zlib.output_compression on  and un-comment it to enable Gzip Compression

2) Compressing CSS and JavaScript files

Compressing CSS and JavaScript files is important to speed your Magento site, we can enable compression for CSS and Java files by adding the following lines to .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

  # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/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 font/opentype

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml

  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon

</IfModule>

Enable Expires Headers

Expire header is used here to indicate how long browser should store files for caching. Generally, we use expire headers for images file only but for Magento, we should apply expire header for all elements like script, styles or flash.

############################################

## Add Expires header to Magento - by Magentoexplorer.com

## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires

    <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">

    ExpiresActive On

    ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"

Disable ETags

Entity tags (ETags) help web servers and browsers use to determine if the component in the browser’s cache matches the one on the origin serverETages allow browsers to validate cached page. We can disable eTags to improve performance:

FileETag none

Disable some unwanted modules