Points Brighton - Web performance improvements you can make in one hour. Supplementary code and links

caching.apacheconfig

# CACHING

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
	ExpiresActive On
	ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType text/richtext "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 1 hour"
	ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
	ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>

gzip.apacheconfig

# GZIP COMPRESSION

<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</ifmodule>

toolbox.md

Toolbox

• Google Pagespeed - https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/?hl=en
• Yahoo! YSlow - http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
• Google Chrome Dev Tools - https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/
• Firebug for Firefox - http://getfirebug.com/
• WebPagetest - http://www.webpagetest.org/
• Slowy App - http://slowyapp.com/