Question about caching

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I’ve always been afraid to do “minifying” of CSS and Javascript so I put it off until I saw all the great reviews of Autoptimize. I installed the plugin using the defaults values. Wow, what a difference!

I ran a test on fastorslow.com and the results were impressive but one thing that was pointed out was Improve Caching Efficiency:

An estimated 3 MB is wasted per load due to cache misses across 69 files. Increasing cache times where possible will result in faster page loads for repeat visitors. Files with a 50% or lower chance of a cache miss are not listed (0 files, 0 B additional).

The only cache that I have available at the moment is nginx (I currently have it off). Would that help the situation or would you recommend something else?

One other question related to nginx. These two settings are related to serving files so should they be on or off?

Smart static files processing 

Serve static files directly by nginx

Thanks again for the excellent product!

• This topic was modified 3 hours, 41 minutes ago by Bryan Eggers.