andreee

@bcworkz oh ok I see, because I sell music on my store I use a lot of embedded music players with an mp3 to provide a preview to the customer. maybe this is the main cause of the general slowness. maybe the homepage videos can improve speed too if replaced with photos. Thank you for your help.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by andreee.

hi @bcworkz I appreciate your help, I followed all your steps and everything seems to be in order now.

Unfortunately it seems like no matter what I do GTMetrix tells me im not leveraging browser caching. It is strange because I have gotten it to work before and it gave me a good score with a fast loading time on GTMetrix, after I got this good score is when I think I installed the second caching plugin and no matter what I do I cant get the good score again :(, even with a clean Htaccess file its very strange.

The two methods I have tried after getting a clean Htaccess file from your method

1. WP fastest Cache Plug-In

2.After this didn’t work I made a new Htaccess file using your method and I added this to the new Htaccess file

#Customize expires cache start – adjust the period according to your needs
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
FileETag MTime Size
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html text/xml text/css application/xml application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/javascript application/x-javascript
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/html “access 600 seconds”
ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml “access 600 seconds”
ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/javascript “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/javascript “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/x-icon “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”
ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”
ExpiresDefault “access 1 month”

</IfModule>
#Expires cache end
# BEGIN Cache-Control Headers

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<filesMatch “\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$”>
Header append Cache-Control “public”
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch “\.(css)$”>
Header append Cache-Control “public”
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch “\.(js)$”>
Header append Cache-Control “private”
</filesMatch>
<filesMatch “\.(x?html?|php)$”>
Header append Cache-Control “private, must-revalidate”
</filesMatch>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
</IfModule>
FileETag None

Neither method was able to get my score back to how it was that one day on GTMetrix. ??

@champsupertramp hello, I just adjusted the priority on the user role and it has solved the problem, thank you for your help.

Hi @champsupertramp

I looked into my ultimate member settings and it doesn’t appear that there is any restrictions set up, I also have not added any of my own code to restrict anything.

I tried updating the plugin but it hasn’t fixed anything yet. disabling the plugin works but it of course removes the functionality I need. not sure what to do any help is appreciated thanks.