Title: Speed Boost Cache help needed Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Speed Boost Cache help needed * Resolved [liton1980](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liton1980/) * (@liton1980) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/) * After installing BulletProof Security and protecting .htaccess files using this plugin, i want to Speed Boost Cache using the provided code which is as below: * ``` # BEGIN WEBSITE SPEED BOOST # Time cheat sheet in seconds # A86400 = 1 day # A172800 = 2 days # A2419200 = 1 month # A4838400 = 2 months # A29030400 = 1 year # Test which ETag setting works best on your Host/Server/Website # with Firefox Firebug, Firephp and Yslow benchmark tests. # Create the ETag (entity tag) response header field #FileETag MTime Size # Remove the ETag (entity tag) response header field Header unset ETag FileETag none ExpiresActive on ExpiresByType image/jpg A4838400 ExpiresByType image/gif A4838400 ExpiresByType image/jpg A4838400 ExpiresByType image/png A4838400 ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A4838400 ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A4838400 ExpiresByType application/javascript A4838400 ExpiresByType text/javascript A4838400 ExpiresByType text/css A4838400 #ExpiresByType text/html A86400 # Default is 2 days below so the line above is not needed / commented out ExpiresDefault A172800 Header append Cache-Control "public" Header append Cache-Control "proxy-revalidate" Header set Cache-Control "private, no-cache, no-store, proxy-revalidate, no-transform" Header set Pragma "no-cache" # Insert filters AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-fastphp AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml # Drop problematic browsers BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary # END WEBSITE SPEED BOOST ``` * I have read the page but i am confused that in which .htaccess file i should paste it and in which line? above it? in the middle or where? * Currently i have 5 .htaccess files. In which of them i should paste above code? _secure.htaccess default.htaccess maintenance.htaccess wpadmin-secure.htaccess Your Current Root htaccess File Your Current wp-admin htaccess File * Also please tell me should i paste the provided code exactly as it is or i should change it? * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/bulletproof-security/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/bulletproof-security/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181170) * The steps to add the Speed Boost cache code are in the link below… * _1. Copy the Speed Boost .htaccess code into this Custom Code text box_… * Yes, you can use the code exactly as it is. * Source: [http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/htaccess-caching-code-speed-boost-cache-code/](http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/htaccess-caching-code-speed-boost-cache-code/) * Thread Starter [liton1980](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liton1980/) * (@liton1980) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181211) * Thanks i did it. But i have just another question. Should i add custom code ** immediately** after i installed BulletProof Security and then use abilities of this plugin or i can add Speed Boost cache code any time i want? * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181260) * You can add or remove custom code at any time using BPS Custom Code or if you want to manually edit .htaccess files you can manually edit them with the htaccess File Editor or if you want to download and edit .htaccess files and then upload them back to your site you can do that as well. The benefits of using BPS Custom Code are these: * Your custom code is saved permanently and will always be written/added to your htaccess files whenever you click the AutoMagic buttons and activate BulletProof Modes in the future. * You can edit your custom code directly in BPS Custom Code text boxes and the format of the .htaccess code will be preserved/maintained to ensure that the . htaccess code format is valid. * Using the built-in BPS htaccess File Editor and BPS Custom Code ensures that the formatting of the .htaccess code is the correct format. * **NOTE:** if you are going to edit .htaccess files on your computer you MUST use either Notepad or Notepad++ – you CANNOT use Word, WordPad or any other word editing applications – they will corrupt the .htaccess code format and your website will crash if you use that .htaccess code. * Thread Starter [liton1980](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liton1980/) * (@liton1980) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181270) * Thank you so much for your excellent support. * [lukedouglas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukedouglas/) * (@lukedouglas) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181457) * FYI, the ‘ExpiresByType’ for ‘jpg’ is listed twice so one should be ‘jpeg’. Also, it is set to 2 days which will hurt on YSlow scores so set it for 1 year as images don’t change often at all. * Change it to this: * ExpiresByType image/jpg A29030400 ExpiresByType image/gif A29030400 ExpiresByType image/jpeg A29030400 ExpiresByType image/png A29030400 * This improved by scores on multiple sites by more than 8 points. * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181458) * Yep, we corrected that typo a while back. A4838400 = 2 months not 2 days. 😉 * [lukedouglas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukedouglas/) * (@lukedouglas) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181459) * Actually, I set the image files to 1 month and 2 months but still got a significant hit on both scores. When I set it to 1 year, they went up significantly, especially YSlow. * I’m guessing that Yahoo feels there is no need to have less than a 1 year setting for image files as they are ‘rarely’ changed, only removed or replaced. From my experience of creating and maintaining over 120+ websites for the past 12+ years professionally, I have to agree with them as I rarely ‘replace’ image files with the same identical name. * So I see no reason ‘not’ to set them at 1 year. * Just my two cents. * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181460) * I think YSlow is a great tool and use it regularly so don’t get me wrong here, but there are several YSlow suggestions that I typically ignore. The most important thing is that your website is actually performing as fast as it possibly can. I think browsers will dump cache long before a year passes so basically you are making YSlow happy, but it would not make any difference as far as an actual speed increase for your website is concerned. * [https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/caching](https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/caching) * [lukedouglas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukedouglas/) * (@lukedouglas) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181461) * Oh! I agree that you don’t have to take some of the suggestions on either the PageSpeed or YSlow analysis just like we don’t have to with the W3C HTML Validation or CSS Validation tools. The only reason I follow this particular suggestion is strictly for scoring as I provide a PDF report to clients just to let them know I’m doing my job. It doesn’t hurt a thing to set image files to 1 year versus 2 months but it will gain you a few points. * FYI, I’ve had more than a handful of clients that wondered why their sites didn’t rank 100% on all of the tests as if that was the end game goals. I’ve had to educate them on the fallacy of online testing tools. 🙂 * Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * (@aitpro) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181462) * Yep, I agree and hear ya about what client’s think matters. My favorite one is“ my website does not rank #1 when searching for my domain name. How are people going to find my products and services”. LOL And yes I know you have answered this same question a million times. 😉 Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Speed Boost Cache help needed’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/bulletproof-security/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=1731938) * [BulletProof Security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulletproof-security/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bulletproof-security/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bulletproof-security/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bulletproof-security/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bulletproof-security/reviews/) ## Tags * [Boost](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/boost/) * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/) * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/) * [speed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/speed/) * 10 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/) * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/speed-boost-cache-help-needed/#post-4181462) * Status: resolved