Website speed and Pingdom

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I’m not sure how I ended up on Pingdom (.com) doing speed tests, but anyways, 78/100 did not seem to be great, a C rating :(

So things to improve:

F Add Expires headers

F Make fewer HTTP requests

D Compress components with gzip

Are there simple ways to add Expires headers? I found this simple way via .htacess (which I use to limit access from China) https://addexpiresheaders.com/uncategorized/how-to-add-expires-headers

I presume this refers to how long servers, not viewers cache files, so 30 days should be fine for everything? or less? Anyone experimented?

Fewer http requests - not sure I can do anything as my sites are full of (small) pictures

Is gzip compression is possible in RW?

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Gzip compression is something out with RW, can be activated if supported by your host.

It may already be as I’m sure Pingdom doesn’t detect gzip properly.

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That is very helpful, thanks. I did wonder, as RW is usually quite forward with features

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In my experience of using Pingdom, it nearly always reports “Compress components with gzip” even when GZIP is enabled on your server. I think it sees some elements on a page that may show a size reduction but that it is insignificant in the grand scheme. Just enable GZIP on your server and then ignore that part of the Pingdom report.

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