10 Ways to Use .htaccess to Speed Up Your WordPress Site
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.
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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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