Hello, do you think there is anything I am missing with my .htaccess file. Thanks,

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

# Enable expirations

ExpiresActive On

# Default directive

ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"

# My favicon

ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

# Images

ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

# CSS

ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"

# Javascript

ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"

</IfModule>

# Redirect non-www urls to www

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.aspirationscotland\.co\.uk

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.aspirationscotland.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

# Deflate for speed

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

# Prevent image hot linking

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?aspirationscotland.co.uk/.*$ [NC]

RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ http://www.aspirationscotland.co.uk/hotlink.gif [R,L]

# Security

<Files .htaccess>

order allow,deny

deny from all

</Files>

 

What does the 'deflate for speed' do?

I think you have covered it all mate, I can't think of anything missing ... maybe error pages (404 etc) unless controlled another way?

What does the 'deflate for speed' do?

 

"The mod_deflate module provides the DEFLATE output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed before being sent to the client over the network."

 

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