We see it all the time.. slow loading CRE Loaded stores.. here are a few pieces of code that should speed up your site BIG TIME! In your root .htaccess file add this at the bottom (if you get a 500 internal server error, remove it as your host does not support it)
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text\.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image\.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</IfModule>
#cache html and htm files for one day
<FilesMatch ".(html|htm)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=43200"
</FilesMatch>
#cache css, javascript and text files for one week
<FilesMatch ".(js|css|txt)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800"
</FilesMatch>
#cache flash and images for one month
<FilesMatch ".(flv|swf|ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000"
</FilesMatch>
#disable cache for script files
<FilesMatch "\.(pl|php|cgi|spl|scgi|fcgi)$">
Header unset Cache-Control
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Thanks. I added your code to my .htaccess and got the following speed increase:
#This is without code rewrite for speed
07/04/2011 15:44:59 – allprods.php (1.309s)
07/04/2011 15:45:02 – product_info.php?products_id=576 (1.098s)
07/04/2011 15:45:05 – shopping_cart.php?&products_id=576 (0.299s)
07/04/2011 15:45:12 – order_checkout.php (2.409s)
#This is with code rewrite for speed
07/04/2011 15:48:24 – allprods.php (0.408s)
07/04/2011 15:48:26 – product_info.php?products_id=576 (0.314s)
07/04/2011 15:48:29 – shopping_cart.php?&products_id=576 (0.280s)
07/04/2011 15:48:34 – order_checkout.php (2.210s)