Comments on: Improving Website Performance With .htaccess File Configuration http://www.aspmagicobjects.com/blog/2010-02-26/improving-website-performance-with-htaccess-file-configuration/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:57:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Website Performance http://www.aspmagicobjects.com/blog/2010-02-26/improving-website-performance-with-htaccess-file-configuration/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Website Performance Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:57:43 +0000 http://www.aspmagicobjects.com/blog/?p=21#comment-59 This is great advice, and one of the most often overlooked areas of performance optimization. Compression, especially for text content such as HTML or CSS, can easily reduce transferred bytes by 80% or more. Caching is very important to setup properly as well. Yahoo research shows that 80% of web traffic is cache-primed, so with the proper content expiration you can seriously reduce the number of web server requests! This is great advice, and one of the most often overlooked areas of performance optimization. Compression, especially for text content such as HTML or CSS, can easily reduce transferred bytes by 80% or more.

Caching is very important to setup properly as well. Yahoo research shows that 80% of web traffic is cache-primed, so with the proper content expiration you can seriously reduce the number of web server requests!

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