The following is a list of things you can do to help improve your website loading speed.
- Use GZip compression for CSS, Javascript etc. Check your site here.
- Minimize your javascript. You can use JMin for this.
- Remove ETags
- Set Header Expires to future
- Put scripts at the bottom of the page
GZip compression can be controlled in Apache servers using .htaccess -
<FilesMatch “\.(html|htm)$”>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
You can also remove Etags and set Header Expires in. htaccess using the following -
<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
<filesmatch “\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$”>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault “access plus 6 hours”
FileETag none
</filesmatch>
</ifmodule>
