Compression, Expiration and Cache control Htaccess rules to speed up Wordpress

wordpress-htaccess.txt

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### HTACCESS RULES TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS
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### / START DEFLATE COMPRESSION
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
</IfModule>
### \ END DEFLATE COMPRESSION

### / START GZIP COMPRESSION
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
  mod_gzip_on Yes
  mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
  mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
  mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>
### \ END GZIP COMPRESSION

### / START EXPIRATION HEADERS
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "now plus 1 hour"
  ExpiresByType text/css "now plus 1 week"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "now plus 1 week"
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "now plus 1 week"
  ExpiresByType image/bmp "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/jp2 "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/pipeg "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/png "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/tiff "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/vnd.microsoft.icon "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/ico "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/icon "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/ico "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/ico "now plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType font/truetype "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
</IfModule>
### \ END EXPIRATION HEADERS

### / START CACHE-CONTROL HEADERS
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
  <filesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "public"
  </filesMatch>
  <filesMatch "\.(css)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "public"
  </filesMatch>
  <filesMatch "\.(js)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "private"
  </filesMatch>
  <filesMatch "\.(x?html?|php)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate"
  </filesMatch>
</ifModule>
### \ END CACHE-CONTROL HEADERS


# Compiled from this article:
# https://www.pixelemu.com/documentation/wordpress-tutorials/how-to-speed-up-wordpress-site-htaccess-optimization-part-1