Jim Cantrell wrote:
Enabling mod_deflate can reduce the bandwidth usage on a particular file by up to 70%, but also reduces the maximum load a server can handle and may actually reduce site performance if the site compresses large dynamic files.
It is recommend that dynamic websites that are already CPU limited should be cautious when enabling compression, particularly where it could affect large files.
Not sure why you want to use Expires Headers, for a small site like yours it is more trouble than it is worth. Even if they are used within Meta Tags, Search Engines just ignore them.
At the end of the day, the speed at which a visitor to your site downloads your page depends on the power of their pc system, the speed of the isp they are connecting to the net with and the speed of your hosting service. Don't take the details of the Gtmetrix report too seriously.
Well OK, but they do have a good point - that if your site takes more than 4 seconds to load, people will go elsewhere. I do it too, when I browse. I've decreased my load time, which was originally about 4 seconds, down to about 0.8 second now.
It may not help me in the search engines, but as long as it doesn't hurt me, I'm fine with that.
Melissa Rhiannon
OS Windows 10
