How to make redirections cacheable in Joomla?

Question

I am confused.

To speed up page load times for visitors of your site, remove as many landing page redirections as possible, and make any required redirections cacheable if possible.

Does any one have an idea on how to do that in Joomla?

For example, how can I cache this redirection

http://website.com/ is a permanent redirect to http://www.website.com/

Answer 1

You can cache redirect via .htaccess example for redirect non-www to www

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

R=301 mean it will be cached.

If you have done this redirect and google page speed is still throwing you an error, you need to ignore it and live with it ;p

Answer 2

You can use sh404sef extension to improve sef and perfomance of your site. Cache, 301 redirections, ...

http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/sh404sef