Browser Caching - Apache

How to change browser caching on your site

It is done by adding some code to a file called .htaccess on your web host/server.

This means going to the file manager (or wherever you go to add or upload files) on your webhost. The .htaccess file controls many important things for your site

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

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"
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

Save the .htaccess file and then refresh your webpage.

How to set different caching times for different file types

You can see in the above code that there are time periods like "1 year" or "1 month". These are associated with file types, as an example the above code states that a .jpg file (image) should be cached for a year. If you want to change that and say you want them only cached for a month you would simply replace "1 year" with "1 month". The values above are pretty optimized for most webpages and blogs.