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Hello,
I would like to know the relationship of setting Akeeba Admin 1) set default expiration time to 1 hour and 2) Automatically compress static resources and how they relate to setting the Joomla Global Configuration cache to ON and GZip to ON. Is Akeeba Admin doing the same thing? Should only the Joomla settings or the Akeeba Admin settings be used?

I did find the following, but I was not clear whether to use the Joomla cache and Gzip or Akeeba Admin tools .htaccess.

I would suggest turning on compression in the template (if that's an option) and use .htaccess Maker's "Compress all static resources" option instead. It's actually more performant, as the compression is handled transparently by Apache, using very fast native code. The less you have to pass through PHP the better performance you get. And as a bonus, not only you get better security but you also make your site more compatible with CDNs.

Thanks
~d

1. Setting the default expiration time to one hour sets a cache expiration to one hour.
2. What I know about it I learned in a ticket similar to the one you quoted. Leave the compression off in the template and in Joomla! and use the compression in .htaccess Maker. The reason is Apache can do the compression much faster than any option using PHP.

I found by using this test site http://gtmetrix.com the following - for my site anyway.

Turning on Akeeba Admin compression and cache brought my site from a "D" in the Google Page Speed grade to a "B". By also turning on the Gzip compression in Joomla speed rate went to an "A".

I have installed JCH Optimize and will be testing that for other speed-up settings.

thanks.
~d

Generally you should not use multiple compression techniques. Your test results seem to disprove that advice. Please try with only the .htaccess Maker compression and see if you maintain the A rating. There is an overhead cost to any compression that you do, generally for the second compression round the overhead exceeds the benefit.

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