How To Increase Page Speed By Leverage Browser Caching Guide

Here is another tip to increase the page speed of your WordPress blog. You  enable leverage browser caching in your WordPress blog.

Here is how I do it:

1. Log into  my server account.

2. Go the .htaccess file.

Note: If you do not know where is your .htaccess file, read this post.

3. Paste the custom code below onto the .htaccess file.

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
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"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

4.   Now click Save Changes.

*Another tip to increase your page speed by specify a vary: accept-encoding header.