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<h4>1. Add an Expires Header</h4>
<p>Web pages are becoming increasingly complex with more scripts, style sheets, images, and Flash on them. A first-time visit to a page may require several HTTP requests to load all the components. By using Expires headers these components become cacheable, which avoids unnecessary HTTP requests on subsequent page views. Expires headers are most often associated with images, but they can and should be used on all page components including scripts, style sheets, and Flash.</p>
<p>Using WP Avoid Slow reduces number of HTTP requests affecting the page load performance.</p>
<h4>2. Configure Etags</h4>
<p>Entity tags (ETags) are a mechanism web servers and the browser use to determine whether a component in the browser’s cache matches one on the origin server. Since ETags are typically constructed using attributes that make them unique to a specific server hosting a site, the tags will not match when a browser gets the original component from one server and later tries to validate that component on a different server.</p>
<p>WP Avoid Slow Configure Etags helping browsers to validate the component !!</p>
<h4>Please Note</h4>
<p>Performance can be measured via Yslow. <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read More</a> about Yslow .</p>


WP Avoid Slow

WP Avoid Slow - Add .htaccess tricks to boost your WP Blog Speed.

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<p>Spider Blocker blocks most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog.<br />
It accomplishes this by using .htaccess file to minimize impact on your website. It’s hidden from external scanners.</p>
<p>Spider Blocker is specifically designed for Apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled, allowing you to effortlessly safeguard your website from the most prevalent bots that hamper performance and drain resources.</p>
<h4>Plugin Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Block Unlimited bots from viewing your site</li>
<li>Easy Export/Import rules (comes with most common list of bots)</li>
<li>Zero Footprint</li>
</ul>


Spider Blocker

Does what it promises to do. No more bad bots to my WP blog :)

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SpiderBlocker will block most common bots that consume bandwidth and slow down your blog.

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