Keep failing cache test

Web Performance Testing Tools/Services
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I keep failing the cache test here with every site I try (although some of them are scoring 100% on pingdom tools). Here is the htaccess code I’m currently using:

Header unset FileETag FileETag none <IfModule mod_expires.c> <IfModule mod_headers.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 4 hour" ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year" <FilesMatch \.(flv|ico|pdf|avi|mov|ppt|doc|mp3|wmv|wav)$ > ExpiresDefault "access plus 3 month" Header append Cache-Control public </FilesMatch> <FilesMatch \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf)$ > ExpiresDefault a3019200 Header append Cache-Control public </FilesMatch> <FilesMatch \.(xml|txt|html|js|css)$ > Header append Cache-Control proxy-revalidate </FilesMatch> <FilesMatch \.(php|cgi|pl|htm)$ > ExpiresActive Off Header set Cache-Control= no-cache Header set Pragma no-cache </FilesMatch> </IfModule> </IfModule>

2

Do you have a test we can look at?

3

OK here’s the result from my test blog:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/141009_QH_QZ2/

4

Looks like something is adding a max-age=0 which will force the browser to make a request for the resource

Cache-Control: max-age=0, proxy-revalidate

5

It looks like your FilesMatch rules are kicking in. but the default Cache-Control header you are sending includes max-age = 0. At least for testing it might be worth setting an expires value in the match blocks for js/css and images.

6

Thanks I took these lines:

<FilesMatch \.(xml|txt|html|js|css)$ > <FilesMatch \.(xml|txt|html)$ > Header append Cache-Control proxy-revalidate </FilesMatch>
and changed the first one to:

<FilesMatch  \.(xml|txt|html)$ >

and that did the trick!