Leverage browser caching of static assets

[HighStreet]

Speed testing sites say I need to Leverage browser caching of static assets to have a faster website? How may I do this for my Xara designed websites?

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi HighStreet, it's not a function you can do from within Xara. You need to modify your .htaccess file on your host Apache server and add something like this:

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
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 text/html "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 1 month"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

Of course this is only an example, your site may require longer or shorter expiry lengths.

[HighStreet]

Thank you!

[letsgofishing]

Thanks for this Egg - always wondered how to do this!