> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.mochahost.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Joomla Optimization Steps

NOTE: Before you begin optimizing your Joomla, please review our general [Performance Optimization Tips article](https://mochahost.com/performance_tips)

Please follow the steps below in order to optimize your Joomla application and improve your speed:

1. Enable **Cache** setting in **Global configuration**.

Please navigate to: **System → Global Configuration** then open the **System** tab where you can find the **Cache Settings**, select the **Conservative caching or Progressive caching**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/1joomla.png)

**- Conservative caching** - caches the content for each unique visitor.\
**- Progressive caching** - delivers the same cached content to all visitors.

2. Enable **Joomla System Cache Plugin**.

Please go to: **Extensions → Plugin Manager** then search for **System Cache Plugin, enable it**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/2joomla.png)

3. Enable **Joomla Compression - Gzip Compression**.

To enable the option, please go to **System → Global configuration → Server → Server Settings**, find the option **GZIP Page Compression then enable it**.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/3joomla.png)

4. **Compressing CSS and JavaScript**.

In the **General setting** of the framework, **enable CSS and JS Optimization**, you can exclude files for optimization then **Save** the setting, that’s it.

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/4joomla.png)

Here is what you will get:

![](https://tutorials.my-virtual-panel.com/articles/5joomla.png)

5. Setup a **robots.txt** file which will help you reduce your load from web crawlers. Please, follow this guide:

[Using robots.txt in order to optimize your site performance and reduce your website load](https://clientarea.mochahost.com/knowledgebase/750)

### Advanced users: **using optimization rules in .htaccess file**.

The .htaccess file handles the way your web servers process your site with a lot of rules to improve your site speed, here is a sample .htaccess file with rules enabled:

1. \########## Begin - ETag Optimization
2. ## This rule will create an ETag for files based only on the modification
3. ## timestamp and their size.
4. ## Note: It may cause problems on your server and you may need to remove it
5. FileETag MTime Size
6. # AddOutputFilterByType is now deprecated by Apache. Use mod\\\_filter in the future.
7. AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html text/xml text/css application/xml application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/javascript application/x-javascript
8. # Enable expiration control
9. ExpiresActive On
10. # Default expiration: 1 hour after request
11. ExpiresDefault "now plus 1 hour"
12. # CSS and JS expiration: 1 week after request
13. ExpiresByType text/css "now plus 1 week"
14. ExpiresByType application/javascript "now plus 1 week"
15. ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "now plus 1 week"
16.
17. # Image files expiration: 1 month after request
18. ExpiresByType image/bmp "now plus 1 month"
19. ExpiresByType image/gif "now plus 1 month"
20. ExpiresByType image/jpeg "now plus 1 month"
21. ExpiresByType image/jp2 "now plus 1 month"
22. ExpiresByType image/pipeg "now plus 1 month"
23. ExpiresByType image/png "now plus 1 month"
24. ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "now plus 1 month"
25. ExpiresByType image/tiff "now plus 1 month"
26. ExpiresByType image/vnd.microsoft.icon "now plus 1 month"
27. ExpiresByType image/x-icon "now plus 1 month"
28. ExpiresByType image/ico "now plus 1 month"
29. ExpiresByType image/icon "now plus 1 month"
30. ExpiresByType text/ico "now plus 1 month"
31. ExpiresByType application/ico "now plus 1 month"
32. ExpiresByType image/vnd.wap.wbmp "now plus 1 month"
33. ExpiresByType application/vnd.wap.wbxml "now plus 1 month"
34.
35. ExpiresByType application/smil "now plus 1 month"
36. # Audio files expiration: 1 month after request
37. ExpiresByType audio/basic "now plus 1 month"
38. ExpiresByType audio/mid "now plus 1 month"
39. ExpiresByType audio/midi "now plus 1 month"
40. ExpiresByType audio/mpeg "now plus 1 month"
41. ExpiresByType audio/x-aiff "now plus 1 month"
42. ExpiresByType audio/x-mpegurl "now plus 1 month"
43. ExpiresByType audio/x-pn-realaudio "now plus 1 month"
44. ExpiresByType audio/x-wav "now plus 1 month"
45.
46. # Movie files expiration: 1 month after request
47. ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "now plus 1 month"
48. ExpiresByType x-world/x-vrml "now plus 1 month"
49. ExpiresByType video/x-msvideo "now plus 1 month"
50. ExpiresByType video/mpeg "now plus 1 month"
51. ExpiresByType video/mp4 "now plus 1 month"
52. ExpiresByType video/quicktime "now plus 1 month"
53. ExpiresByType video/x-la-asf "now plus 1 month"
54. ExpiresByType video/x-ms-asf "now plus 1 month"