Google PageSpeed / Yahoo! YSlow Apache Config for Static Sites

.htaccess

# Protect files and directories
<FilesMatch "(\.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)? |xtmpl)|code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template)$">
  Order allow,deny
</FilesMatch>

# Don’t show directory listings
Options -Indexes

# Basic rewrite rules, stop unneeded PERL bot, block subversion directories
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L]
  ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden"
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl.*
  RewriteRule .* – [F,L]
  DirectorySlash On
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  # Turn on Expires and set default expires to 3 days
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault A259200
  FileETag none

  # Set up caching on media files for 1 month
  <FilesMatch ".(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv|pdf|swf|mov|mp3|wmv|ppt|xml|txt|html|js|css|eot|svg|ttf|woff|woff2)$">
    ExpiresDefault A2419200
    # Header append Cache-Control "public"
  </FilesMatch>

  # Force no caching for dynamic files
  <FilesMatch ".(php|cgi|pl|htm)$">
    ExpiresDefault A0
    Header set Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Gzip compression
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  # Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/
  <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
      SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
      RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>

  # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \
                                application/javascript \
                                application/json \
                                application/rss+xml \
                                application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
                                application/x-font-ttf \
                                application/xhtml+xml \
                                application/xml \
                                font/opentype \
                                image/svg+xml \
                                image/x-icon \
                                text/css \
                                text/html \
                                text/plain \
                                text/x-component \
                                text/xml
</IfModule>