Hostgator and Compression

[pmeenan]

(06-26-2010 02:55 AM)deking Wrote:  

(06-14-2010 10:15 PM)Dayton Wilks Wrote:  This is what I have Graham
Header unset ETag
<FilesMatch "\.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg|js|swf|bmp|ico)$">
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 years"
Header set Cache-Control "public, no-transform"
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt|html|js|css)$">
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 months"
Header set Cache-Control "public, no-transform"
</FilesMatch>

Hello Dayton. I inserted your code into my .htaccess file and, while it didn't do anything for my "NoEtags" score...it worked wonders for my "Cache Static Content" score. I thank you for the code.

Tom

Unless you're running a multi-server load balanced site (which you aren't on shared hosting) I wouldn't worry about looking at the ETags at all. It is only a potential problem for multi-server installs (not sure I even want to continue checking for it which is why it is not exposed in the main grades).