</IfModule>
# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.
-<IfModule mod_expires.c>
- ExpiresByType text/html A1
-</IfModule>
+# note: drupal's botstrap.inc does: header("Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT");
+# so forget about optimizing php content
+ExpiresActive On
+<FilesMatch "\.(css|js|png)$">
+ExpiresDefault "access plus 12 hours"
+</FilesMatch>
+
+# Turn on gzip compression
+<FilesMatch "\.(php|js|css)$">
+SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
+</FilesMatch>
# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>