[Contribution] .htaccess Optimisation V1.0

[Guest]

This is the support thread for .htaccess Optimisation.

 

Installation:

 

Upload the .htaccess file, or if you already have one, copy the text and add it to your .htaccess file.

 

What does it do?

 

This add-on will optimise your site, massively speeding it up, reducing your bandwidth usage and possibly increase your search engine ranking.

 

How?

 

In two ways, first, by compressing files that can be sent compressed, sometimes reducing file transfer size by upto 80%. Second, by controlling the cache, thus again reducing server load.

 

Link: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/8927

Edited October 15, 2013 by ABG_Building

[Mort-lemur]

Hi,

 

Would this work as is on a 2.2 site or is it specific to 2.3.x ?

 

Many Thanks

[Guest]

It should work on any version.

 

 

Hi,

 

Would this work as is on a 2.2 site or is it specific to 2.3.x ?

 

Many Thanks

[Guest]

I really hope this helps people.

 

To see how much it improves your site, first test your site on the following two sites, then add the addon and test again.

 

http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

[Mort-lemur]

Hi,

 

Gave this a try on my 2.2 sites and it appears to work great so far, with the following improvements:

 

Google Pagespeed

Was 55/100 and 67/100

Now 73/100 and 82/100

 

Pingdom

Was 85/100

Now 96/100

 

So a marked improvement on overall page performance - So Many Thanks

 

Would this .htaccess mod also work within my admin .htaccess to speed up admin tasks / pageload ?

[Guest]

That is great to hear, almost a 20% improvement in one case!

 

I have another version that includes keep-alive, but I haven't noticed any real improvement using it, so I haven't bothered uploading it yet.

[Guest]

Got an issue, as always :( landing pages loads fine but when clicking on any product I get a blank white page?

 

Please advise

[videod]

Will this work on a Godaddy account?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Guest]

Fixed

[♥GLWalker]

Hi,

 

Would this work as is on a 2.2 site or is it specific to 2.3.x ?

 

Many Thanks

 

From my understanding of .htaccess, your admin should inherit functionality of the sites root .htaccess file. However, I cannot confirm that this is true under a .htacess password protected directory.

[Guest]

I've never used GoDaddy, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. It is easy enough to try though.

 

Will this work on a Godaddy account?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Guest]

That's great to hear. Would you mind explaining how you fixed it in case others have the same issue? Thanks!

Fixed

[aliasad]

Hi

 

I just installed this module. It did not do anything my speed ratio is same as before.

Can someone help me .

[Guest]

Did you install it correctly? If so, maybe you had already implemented these improvements in the past?

 

Hi

 

I just installed this module. It did not do anything my speed ratio is same as before.

Can someone help me .

[aliasad]

yea according to the instruction i put the code into my .htaccess file. The code i put was not there before.

That was simply copy and paste.

 

Here is the code which i put

 

 

<IfModule mod_headers.c>

<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$">

Header append Vary Accept-Encoding

</FilesMatch>

</IfModule>

 

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

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive on

ExpiresDefault "access plus 30 days"

</IfModule>

Header unset ETag

FileETag None

</FilesMatch>

 

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

 

# Or, compress certain file types by extension:

<files *.html>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

</files>

[Guest]

@@aliasad

 

Is your server running apache? Is <IfModule mod_headers.c> found anywhere else in your .htaccess? And I know this sounds silly, but did you remember to upload it?

[aliasad]

Yeah i have apache server.I did not find <IfModule mod_headers.c> anywhere in my .htaccess.

I also installed this module on my other website it worked fine and it increased my website speed.

 

But this module is not working on my first website.

[Guest]

Very strange. What Google PageSpeed and Pingdom scores are you getting?

 

 

Yeah i have apache server.I did not find <IfModule mod_headers.c> anywhere in my .htaccess.

I also installed this module on my other website it worked fine and it increased my website speed.

 

But this module is not working on my first website.

[aliasad]

From first website PageSpeed 40/100

it was 40/100

 

From second PageSpeed 74/100

it was 32/100

[Guest]

This is very strange. I'm sorry, I don't know what the issue is. If you've uploaded the .htaccess to your root it should be working.

 

From first website PageSpeed 40/100

it was 40/100

 

From second PageSpeed 74/100

it was 32/100

[kru]

I expanded on this and noticed further improvements in the PageSpeed results. Read on...

 

First of all, I tested the site on the two websites provided. The results:

 

PageSpeed = 64/100 for mobile and 70/100 for desktop

Pingdom = 81/100

 

Then I added the htaccess changes recommended in the contrib. The results:

 

PageSpeed = 70/100 for mobile and 80/100 for desktop

Pingdom = 95/100

 

Then I added some additional lines to htaccess. The results:

 

PageSpeed = 77/100 for mobile and 84/100 for desktop

Pingdom = 97/100

 

Ok, so there was a marginal increase in the Pingdom score but there was a noticeable increase in the PageSpeed scores which are, of course, a Google test and, as such, are much more important in my book. So what additional changes did I make? I added the following lines after the ExpiresDefault

 

ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 week"

ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

 

Does anyone see any problems with doing this? I poked around on the site and didn't find any problems but I will report back if I do.

Edited February 25, 2014 by kru

[katayama]

When I implement this I get an Internal Server Error.

[homewetbar]

Interesting little mod, for whatever reason google page speed likes this better than the code I was previously using, however yslow rates it the same.

 

One correction I would suggest is fixing the syntax, here is the fixed syntax along with a few more elements included for caching:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>

  <FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$">

    Header append Vary Accept-Encoding

  </FilesMatch>

</IfModule>

 

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive on

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

ExpiresDefault "access plus 30 days"

</FilesMatch>

  <filesMatch "\.(css)$">

ExpiresDefault "access plus 5 days"

  </filesMatch>

  <filesMatch "\.(js)$">

ExpiresDefault "access plus 5 days"

  </filesMatch>

<filesMatch "\\.(xml|txt)$">

ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 hour"

</filesMatch>

<filesMatch "\\.(html|htm|php)$">

ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 hour"

</filesMatch>

Header unset ETag

FileETag None

</IfModule>

[homewetbar]

When I implement this I get an Internal Server Error.

You have to have mod mod_expires AND mod_headers enabled on your server. Also you may have cut and pasted incorrectly. Contact your friendly google search or system admin for further assistance enabling these. :)

[Peper]

few trials errors loading product page

In my Cpanel optimize Website, select everything option

 

96/100 moblile 

72/100 mobile speed

86/100 desktop speed

 

The font awesome is stored on server

 

## ETAG CACHE ##

<IfModule mod_headers.c>

  <FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$">

    Header append Vary Accept-Encoding

  </FilesMatch>

</IfModule>

 

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

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive on

ExpiresDefault "access plus 30 days"

ExpiresByType font/ttf      "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType font/woff     "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"

</IfModule>

Header unset ETag

FileETag None

</FilesMatch>

 

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

 

# Or, compress certain file types by extension:

<files *.html>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

</files>

## ETAG CACHE END ##

 

Any improvements pls post