How do I leverage browser caching of .woff fonts?

Question

In PageSpeed Insights I keep seeing the message to leverage browser caching of a particular iconset/font I'm using: iconFont.woff (2 days)

I've set my .htaccess as so:

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType font/ttf "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType font/woff "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access 1 month" 
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

Despite this I'm still getting the same message in PageSpeed Insights. How do I cache this properly?

Judijudicable

Maybe font/woff is not working, try this: #3595323 – Atterbury

Answer 1

This is doing the job for me, as Google page speed is no longer asking to fix it. The AddType is essential.

# Fonts
# Add correct content-type for fonts
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot 
AddType application/x-font-ttf .ttf
AddType application/x-font-opentype .otf
AddType application/x-font-woff .woff
AddType image/svg+xml .svg

# Compress compressible fonts
# only uncomment if you dont have compression turned on already. Otherwise it will cause all other filestypes not to get compressed
# AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf application/x-font-opentype image/svg+xml

ExpiresActive on

# Add a far future Expires header for fonts
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-opentype "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/font-woff2  "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 year"

Johnnyjohnnycake

Hello I tried adding this in .htaccess but when i load the site after adding this site was showing "500" internal server error". – Forfend

@NileshKumar Add <IfModule mod_expires.c> above ExpiresActive on and </IfModule> after the last line, it will fix your error – Australia

Should you also have AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-woff and AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject or so those formats not offer compression? – Picardi

what about for .woff2 files? – Sonnie

Answer 2

With the help of Seb's IT blog this worked for me:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  # Activate mod
  ExpiresActive on

  # Declare fonts content-type
  AddType application/x-font-woff2 .woff2

  # Set cache duration
  ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff2  "access plus 1 month"

  # Append "public" to header "Cache-Control"
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header append Cache-Control "public"
  </IfModule>
</IfModule>

Barrator