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Add Expires Headers in WordPress

There are many online tools available such as through which you can check out your website performance and analyze their core web vitals. Some of the best tools to run speed tests are Website speed checker by Bitcatcha and another popular tool is GTmetrix. These tools provide you results in the form of Grades, scores, and Warning about some issues your website might face.<br><br>Similarly, through this tool, you can also check Expires Headers on your website and if found missing, you can add them later.<br><br>

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Add Expires Headers in WordPress

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  1. How to Add Expires Headers in WordPress? (2 Methods)

  2. Are you looking for How to add Expires headers in WordPress? Then you must have run your WordPress site through a speed testing tool that suggests you add Expires headers. This means your website struggled with poor loading time and you haven’t optimized its browser cache yet. Which has the main purpose to help your website to tell the visitor’s browser to store certain files on their computer and load those files whenever the visitor visits the website again, rather than downloading the same file from the server again on each visit. And helps to boost up the website speed.

  3. What are Expires headers? Expires headers are HTTP headers whose main purpose is to tell your visitor’s website browser whether it should load resources from the browser cache or it should load new resources from the webserver.Due to this, it helps to increase your website speed by loading the elements from the local browser cache rather than downloading them from the server.To make this happen, you need to Add Expires Headers in your WordPress site and after that, the web browser will start browser caching for a certain period that you have already set up in Expires headers.Let us understand it with an example, suppose you have implemented Expires headers on JPEG files for one month.

  4. How You can Check Expires Headers on your Website? There are many online tools available such as through which you can check out your website performance and analyze their core web vitals. Some of the best tools to run speed tests are Website speed checker by Bitcatcha and another popular tool is GTmetrix. These tools provide you results in the form of Grades, scores, and Warning about some issues your website might face. Similarly, through this tool, you can also check Expires Headers on your website and if found missing, you can add them later.

  5. A. Add Expires Headers in WordPress using WordPress Plugins Although, there are plenty of WordPress plugins are available through which you can easily add Expires Headers in WordPress. But we are going to pick the best suitable one which is Free and has a better user interface. Hummingbird and WP Super Cache are some popular plugins that have a huge number of downloads in the WordPress repository.

  6. B. Add Expires Headers in WordPress Manually If you have the technical expertise and know-how to manage and handle WordPress files, you can always go for the manual method. This method to add Expires Headers in WordPress mainly involves adding certain codes to your .htaccess file. Since we have already mentioned that this method is best suitable for only those users who have expertise in WordPress files, beginners must refrain to use this method because in case any mistake happens in codes, the whole site can get completely damaged or broken.

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