htaccess Gzip Compression and expires to speed up page load time

htaccess-tweaks

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    #The following line is enough for .js and .css
    AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/xml application/xhtml+xml text/css application/xml application/rss+xml application/atom_xml application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php application/x-httpd-fastphp text/html

    #The following lines are to avoid bugs with some browsers
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html 
</IfModule>

# BEGIN EXPIRES
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>
# END EXPIRES

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    <FilesMatch "\.(js|css|xml|gz)$">
        Header append Vary Accept-Encoding
    </FilesMatch>
    <FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpe?g|png|gif|swf)$">  
        Header set Cache-Control "public"  
    </FilesMatch>  
    <FilesMatch "\.(css)$">  
        Header set Cache-Control "public"  
    </FilesMatch>  
    <FilesMatch "\.(js)$">  
        Header set Cache-Control "private"  
    </FilesMatch>  
    <FilesMatch "\.(x?html?|php)$">  
        Header set Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate"  
    </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>