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Optimizations: Static Caching and Compression

Upon testing RPGist apps on the Google PageSpeed Insights I noticed that they were not using static cache or compression policies.

The server settings have just been updated to pass cache header for images, scripts and the like and to use Gzip compression on text files

This significantly reduces the size of files downloaded during loading and avoids unnecessarily downloading of files that are already cached in the browser.

As a result, loading applications that have a lot of Javascript, such as the D&D 5e Spellcaster Helper and the RPG Looking for Group platform, have become noticeably faster.

I should have done that as soon as I migrated the apps to a server of my own, but it slipped my mind.

Now it is totally excelent!