Add expire headers

Hi, thank you for reaching out to us. The expiry headers pingdom is referring to is the following. I ran a test using gtmetrix because pingdom did not show me which files to check.

https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato%3A300%2C400%2C700%2C400italic%7CMontserrat%3A700%7CHomemade+Apple
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=renderInvisibleReCaptcha&render=explicit
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/webworker.js?hl=en&v=v1552285980763

Our plugin cannot control outside links. You should contact Google about this issue if you truly want to find out why.

Let me know if you need more information or help.

Kind regards

Hello mbrsolution,

Thank you for getting back to us. We’ll reach out google and see what they come up with using the references you are providing. We will keep you posted though.

By the way, we noticed your plugin writes on the wordpress .htaccess file, not on the root/public one. Why is that?

Thank you for your help!

Hi,

By the way, we noticed your plugin writes on the wordpress .htaccess file, not on the root/public one. Why is that?

That .htaccess file is the one controlling your site.

Kind regards

Hi mbrsolution,

Thank you for getting back to us. We are not super saavy on this ha!, but we are learning as quickly as we can. We asked this question because we have noticed .htaccess files placed in different roots, but we know now that the one you referred to is the one in the wordpress binder where the installation is.

Thank you for your help.

You are most welcome.

Hello mbrsolution,

We have activated the option gzip in the plugin, but where do you see the changes added in the .htaccess file?

Thank you for your help.

Hi,

We have activated the option gzip in the plugin, but where do you see the changes added in the .htaccess file?

The gzip compression function in our plugin doesn’t write to htaccess fle. That one is handled using the following PHP function:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ob-gzhandler.php

Kind regards

Hello mbrsolution,

We found some code on the .htaccess file in the public_html binder. Not sure what this code is.

Thank you for your help.

Hi, do you need more information or help?

Thank you

Hello mbrsolution,

We understand that compression of our HTML and CSS files with gzip typically saves around fifty to seventy percent of the file size. This means that it takes less time to load our pages, and less bandwidth is used over all. But how efficient is compared to adding code to the .htaccess file?

Thank you for your help.

Hi, that depends on your servers configuration.

You should carry out a test to see if your site loads faster when gzip is enabled or not.

Kind regards

Hi mbrsolution,

Thank you for getting back to us. We have tested the site with and without the gzip and it doesn’t show much of a difference.

I guess we will have to check the server configuration and see what is happening.

Thank you for your help.