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I'm trying to use Google PageSpeed Insights to speed up my website - www.edmhunters.com.

First off, here is what my .htaccess file looks like

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Caching for 1 Year
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|svg|woff|eot|ttf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"
</FilesMatch>

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Caching for 1 Week
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|png|gif|css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Defining MIME types to ensure the web server actually knows about them
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
    AddType application/javascript          js
    AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject   eot
    AddType application/x-font-ttf          ttf ttc
    AddType font/opentype                   otf
    AddType application/x-font-woff         woff
    AddType image/svg+xml                   svg svgz 
    AddEncoding gzip                        svgz
</Ifmodule>

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Compressing output
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon image/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype
</Ifmodule>

The Cache-Control header strangely is working only for media files and not static files.

Eg. The output of www.edmhunters.com/media/dj/images/deadmau5_2.jpg on redbot.org looks like this

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 06:01:54 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
    Last-Modified: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:52:29 GMT
    ETag: "7391-502ca7aba5a6e"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 29585
    Cache-Control: max-age=604800, public
    Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
    Connection: Keep-Alive
    Content-Type: image/jpeg

While the output of www.edmhunters.com/static/img/bp-logo.9bf55788f1b6.jpg looks like this

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:43:28 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
    Last-Modified: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 05:43:32 GMT
    ETag: 1409031812.62
    Content-Length: 2592
    Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
    Connection: Keep-Alive
    Content-Type: image/jpeg

Also according to Google PageSpeed Insights for my homepage the HTML is minified, while Google PageSpeed Insights for another page says my HTML is not minified.

Why this different behaviour?

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  • You only have to view the source of those two pages to see that neither of those pages are "minified" - Google would seem to have that a bit wrong? However, if you already have compression enabled (which you have) then minification does not matter so much (if at all).
    – MrWhite
    Sep 14, 2014 at 9:51

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I was serving my static files using Django while my media files using Apache. Serving my static files through Apache solved this issue.

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