Leverage browser caching

Question

According to: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/caching.html#LeverageBrowserCaching I should be using browser caching. However, I don\'t know how.

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Answer 1

You can do something like this in your .htaccess.

  ## EXPIRES CACHING ##

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"

  ## EXPIRES CACHING ##