John Robertson

im guessing your site does not include a www in the url?

Also to note, if you have a cPanel manager with root access on apache, it can be done via cpanel > advanced > mime types as well.

Yoast doesnt use a self hosted CDN. I think he is with either Akamai or NetDNA. Any CDN provider allows you to specify a custom domain… most people going with something like (static.domain.com or cdn.domain.com) etc.

@catscholz74 – you have a lot of CSS within your main HTML template. Considered integrating it into the main stylesheet?

@mattloak – litespeed doesnt affect the W3TC set up, it’s just a better handler than apache. however it’s not recommended with APC usage (contrary to what I see on a few sites). I honestly found Litespeed a waste of money because there are alternative setups with free and very efficient software alternatives to apache and so on.

APC and Xcache have proven to be pretty comparable in terms of benchmarking, sometimes with Xcache beating APC, but it proves to be more unstable than APC, so results may fluctuate here and there. APC is the best alternative as Frederick said… due to PHP6 support. However, Ive been seeing that APC and specific modules like suphp can actually cause a decrease in performance. a better setup would be using php-fpm or php-fcgi with APC.

A rather dumb question but do you have “Deselect this option to disable all caching functionality.” in the first box under General Setting checkmarked?

have you enabled the various sections like minify, page cache and so on?

Thanks c3mdigital. My server is pure NGINX though….i decided to ditch apache (using php-fpm). I should still be fine though right?

Im using APC, which I believe doesnt need mod rewrite rules. I cant take advantage of browser caching though since I dont want to mess around too much with the Virtual host commands… I rather wait for version 1…

Also, the GTMetric site shows the Page Speed loading tab which gives a better sense of what can be improved to reduce loading times.

Sounds good.

Well yea you’d need to file a support ticket cause that shouldn’t happen. I dont think there is any need for cURL support unless you use Amazon S3.

Are you using Amazon for CDN or something? Cause I dont have cURL installed either but it doesnt affect the plugin’s operation. If you are using Amazon S3 or w/e…. you’d need to get the web host to enable it for you.

Works for me but Im completely APC, so no need to do any rule rewrites.

Problem solved. Because im using nginx, i pretty much have to tell it everything to do. I did have gzip enabled but i also needed to specify the types of files to compress, as well as the compression level and so on.