Website performance tips?

Website performance tips? - .htaccess files are extremely useful in many cases for users who either do not have root permissions or for users who simply aren't comfortable in making changes in their web server's configuration file. Trying to debug .htaccess not working isn't always the easiest thing to do, however, hopefully by checking the discuss below mentioned about performance, htaccess, , , .htaccess common problems as well as the troubleshooting tips, you'll have a better grasp on what you may have to modify to get your .htaccess file running smoothly.Problem :

I'm kind of having some troubles with the loading of my website.
It sometimes loads fast, then when you refresh it, most of the time, it will just keep trying to load images. It will keep doing that for a minute or so, and none of the JavaScript will execute.

I have followed most of the tips given by Yahoo, except caching, which I couldn't get working properly.

Does anyone know how to do proper caching of image and JavaScript files using htaccess? Most of the code I found online won't work.

Solution :

The link given by Ann B, has solved all of my problems.

Additionally, if you would like to do some further testing, give the htaccess tester tool a try. It allows you to specify a certain URL as well as the rules you would like to include and then shows which rules were tested, which ones met the criteria, and which ones were executed.