Enhancement: GTMETRIX Add Expires headers

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Referring to an item of #6 we will look at how to add the "expires headers"

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Expire Headers

Definition

Expires headers tell the browser whether they should request a specific file from the server or whether they should grab it from the browser's cache.

The whole idea behind Expires Headers is not only to reduce the load of downloads from the server (constantly downloading the same file when it's unmodified is wasting precious load time) but rather to reduce the number of HTTP requests for the server.

.htaccess

From StackOverFlow: The easiest way to add these headers is a .htaccess file that adds some configuration to your server. If the assets are hosted on a server that you don't control, there's nothing you can do about it.

Note that some hosting providers will not let you use .htaccess files, so we need to check if github allows it.

In Apache HTTP server, .htaccess (hypertext access) is the configuration file that allows for web server configuration. HTML5 Boilerplate includes a number of best practice server rules for making web pages fast and secure, these rules can be applied in the .htaccess file.

.htaccess file example : h5bp/html5-boilerplate

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Can I update the HTTP headers with a .htaccess on Github pages?

The answer is no, however we can stimulate html header on html pages using <meta http-equiv> tag.

There seem to be a jekyll plugin named assets but I have not tested it.

I don't think I will create a .htaccess file for the beauty since I will be mostly using the template on Github page.
So Won't Do.

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You can leverage browser caching, use apache configuration files if you use something like cloudflare according to this.
You can find some free offer for your blog, but you will have to pay for a bigger website.

I might test it at some point