How to Speed Up Your WordPress Blog Using .htaccess

Fast loading speed is one of the main factors for ranking quickly.  visitors can’t like a slow loading blog and website.

Some people think Google given rank fast loading website but it is false, Google penalized slow loading website.

Here I share with you best ways to use .htaccess to How to speed up your WordPress blog.

Before We Begin: Make a Backup

At first backup your WordPress site for 100% security. It is Best Practices for every blogger. than go to your cpanel -> WordPress sites root folder and find  .htaccess file and open it. and pest below code

1. Enable caching : pest below code for Enable caching

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
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 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 2 days"
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

2.gzip files : gzip allows you to compress files, so obviously that means they load faster. The code below will gzip html, text, css, js and php files:

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.*

3. Stop hotlinking : 

some time anouther user use your blog image link. for this reson can slow your website

#disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC] #RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/stophotlinking.jpg [R,L]

4.  If mod_deflate is not supported in your hosting server use this code.

<FilesMatch ".(txt|html|htm|php)">
php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler

5. Use PHP compression

# php compression – use with caution <ifmodule mod_php4.c> php_value zlib.output_compression 16386 </ifmodule>

6. Stop spammers : This code Just like hotlinking, every time a spammer comes on to your site, they’re using your resources, so by stopping spammers you can free up said resources and speed up your site.

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php* RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourblog.com.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

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