Add Expires or Cache-Control headers

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The Expires and Cache-Control headers determine how long a browser should keep a resource in its cache. You should therefore use them, and configure them correctly for CSS style sheets, JavaScript scripts and images.
Ideally, these elements should be kept as long as possible so that the browser does not request them again from the server. This saves HTTP requests, bandwidth and CPU power server-side.

Here is a configuration example for Expires and Cache-Control headers for the Apache web server:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    <FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf|css|gz)$">
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
    </FilesMatch>
    <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm)$">
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, public"
    </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

This best practice should only be applied if it is coherent with your project's specifications.

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