Use Apache’s mod_expires to explicitly set the expiration of a file by it’s type. This will enable to browser to cache these static assets and greatly increase performance.

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "now"
ExpiresByType text/html "now"
ExpiresByType text/xml "now"
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