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    • BradBorst
      BradBorst last edited by

      I ran an independant SEO test that recommended I do the following:

      Missing Header: Cache-Control header missing, should be presentMissing Header: Content-Length header missing, should be presentMissing Header: Content-Encoding - why don't you try using gzip or deflate?Missing Header: Expires header missing, should be presentMissing Header: Last-Modified header missing, should be presentIs any of this necessary?

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      • Marcus_Miller
        Marcus_Miller last edited by

        Nope, not really. 🙂

        What was the test?

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        • BradBorst
          BradBorst @Marcus_Miller last edited by

          http://seosorcerer.com/check

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          • TaitLarson
            TaitLarson last edited by

            Some of those headers might help you serve your page faster.  They might  save you and your users some bandwidth.

            I guess if you think that page load time is super important (most say it's a small factor) then you could argue those are important for SEO but genrally speaking Marcus is right.

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