Magento Optimized htaccess

                                  Magento Optimized htaccess

The following htaccess entries are the optimized htaccess for a Magento, it will speedup your site upto 20%.
I have tested this htaccess in few sites and i have found that the speed of the site increased by 20%. You can also view the performance of your site after adding this site using the following link.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Feel the difference and optimize your site easily just by adding this, If you are getting more than 80% for your site in the above page speed test, it a good result.

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## enable apache served files compression (not php, html/images/css/js

## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

          # Insert filter on all content

          SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

          # Insert filter on selected content types only

          AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript

          # Netscape 4.x has some problems...

          BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

          # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems

          BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

          # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine

          BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

          # Don't compress images

          SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary

          # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content

          Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

</IfModule>

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## Enable keep-alives to reduce # http requests

<ifModule mod_headers.c>

            Header set Connection keep-alive

</ifModule>

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## Add default Expires header

## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

# Turn on Expires and set default to 0

            ExpiresActive On

            ExpiresDefault A0

            # Set up caching on media files for 1 year (forever?)

            ExpiresDefault A29030400

            Header append Cache-Control "public"

            # Set up caching on media files for 2 weeks

            ExpiresDefault A1209600

            Header append Cache-Control "public"

            # Set up 1 week caching on commonly updated files

            ExpiresDefault A604800

            Header append Cache-Control "proxy-revalidate"

            # Force no caching for dynamic files

            ExpiresActive Off

            Header set Cache-Control "private, no-cache, no-store, proxy-revalidate, no-transform"

            Header set Pragma "no-cache"

</IfModule>

Header unset Pragma
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

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Hope this helped....