I told chatgpt to write me some rule so that my site load faster!

AKA

So for the last couple of days (after installing flarum), I'm having very slow loading speed on my website. I'm using Hostinger premium plan and there is no good caching service. I also don't use cloudflare. So I explain the issue to chatgpt and it suggested me to add some caching rule in the htaccess file and here it is:

`<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On

# Static Images (jpg, jpeg, gif, png, ico) - Cached for 1 year
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

# CSS and JavaScript - Cached for 3 months
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 3 months"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 3 months"

# Fonts - Cached for 6 months
ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff2 "access plus 6 months"
ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 6 months"

# PDFs and other documents - Cached for 1 month
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"

# HTML (optional short caching) - Cached for 1 hour
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 hour"

# Default caching for any other file types - Cached for 1 month
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"

</IfModule>
`
I added the code in Htaccess but when i run page speed test, i see no major improvemnet. So my question is, is this code functional? And is there any issue adding it in Htaccess file?

luceos

AKA you already applied the rules from AKA ? If so the expire module is already enabled.

clarkwinkelmann

Caching static files is important, and Flarum already comes out of the box with rules very similar to these in the default provided .htaccess file: flarum/flarumblob/v1.8.1/public/.htaccess#L34-L84 Make sure you didn't remove those from your .htaccess. With those original lines, your new lines are not needed as they are duplicates of existing rules.

In any case, make sure the expire module of Apache is enabled.

I'm not sure, but isn't Page Speed measuring first page load without cache? The cache rules will only speed up subsequent page loads, but not the original page load.

AKA

clarkwinkelmann a dumb question: from where I can enable expire module? I'm using hostinger premium plan and I think they don't provide Apache or Nginx!