[addamroy]

Originally Posted by fxdigi-cash

it is a good start, possibly there is something else needs to be addressed in your codes such as css and js order arrangement or compressing images .....

you can upload an image here you use on your forum to show you how far I can shrink its size...

Why not just show us all! lol

[final kaoss]

using one of the tools provided in my article can do this easily as this picture of pngauntlet demonstrates. Sometimes there is not much gain but other times you can shave off quite a huge number of KB's from images.


Here's a sample image from my own usage of the tool:

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by final kaoss

Yes I can agree with that, that a cdn is not for everyone. I personally find them to be the most effective with vbulletin when they are only set to serve javascript & css.

If you use the visual studio plugin provided along with the free trial of VS, you can shave off kb's from images without changing the file extension and after that then yes, you most certainly can use sprites.

well said. Yes, true CDN is going to be the 1st choice for anyone who wants to pay, but CloudeFlare offers a free subscription, which is good to start with. I believe they are decent to some level. I might consider their paid service near future.

For sprites, the story is very long and it depends on how you divide your css to many or only one file. if one file then taking all images in consideration to use only one sprite would take long time especially if your forum is full of custom images...

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by addamroy

Why not just show us all! lol

I would love it, but first I want to see the challenge and increase the excitement...

Ok, here is an image attached original and after shrinking in size...

notice that before.png is 1.3kb with 12x12px and then after compressing it (and renamed it as well), after.png is 429kb with 12x12px.....

for instance, it is much better than any compression tool... what you think???

perhaps I will open a topic for this just to avoid the distraction...

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by final kaoss

using one of the tools provided in my article can do this easily as this picture of pngauntlet demonstrates. Sometimes there is not much gain but other times you can shave off quite a huge number of KB's from images.


Here's a sample image from my own usage of the tool:

I like this tool, but still the one I use is away much better... let's test it and see more...

[Paul M]

Moved to articles, this is not an add-on.

[leanbulk]

Does this not work with vbseo? It actually slowed me down...

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[fxdigi-cash]

it should be working on all vb versions without any exception. you can post your site link or a test for it using http://gtmetrix.com to see what the issue is...

Originally Posted by leanbulk

Does this not work with vbseo? It actually slowed me down...

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Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

[tommythejoat]

Originally Posted by fxdigi-cash

Hi Nirjonadda

I can't make a plugin just for such a simple code... I have many reasons why...

1- Plugins decrease vb performance and effect on the speed load.
2- it may cause a conflict with other plugins or codes, that's why adding a code directly to .htaccess is a lot better and easier.

besides, I want to reduce the number of used plugin instead of increasing them since they are big issue on vb load speed... codes are always better for performance and speed ....

Cheers

Could you tell me how plugins increase load time? Our computer executes pretty fast and the additional envelope to get to the plugin code is small, is it not?

Are you saying that if I removed all the hooks in the vBulletin php files and replaced them with the set of plugins that execute under those hooks then the site would run faster?

Has anyone done any experiments on this and is the data published?

[datoneer]

This is my htaccess file, where do i need to put the code?

#RewriteOptions inherit
# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
# Please note: you still need to disable the hack in
# the vBSEO control panel to stop url rewrites.
RewriteEngine On

# Some servers require the Rewritebase directive to be
# enabled (remove '#' at the beginning to activate)
# Please note: when enabled, you must include the path
# to your root vB folder (i.e. RewriteBase /forums/

#RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.imspot\.org$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.imspot.org/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron|vbseo_sitemap|api\.php)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?))$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^[0-9]+-([^&]+)
RewriteRule ^/?showthread\.php$ http://www.imspot.org/forums/topic/%1 [L,R=301]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by tommythejoat

Could you tell me how plugins increase load time? Our computer executes pretty fast and the additional envelope to get to the plugin code is small, is it not?

Are you saying that if I removed all the hooks in the vBulletin php files and replaced them with the set of plugins that execute under those hooks then the site would run faster?

Has anyone done any experiments on this and is the data published?

Hi, sorry to reply late ...

As I mentioned before that actually plugins slow down the vb board. you can try that yourself. All you need is to create new forum test without any plugin and compare with the one you have now that has plugins. in general plugins require a query most of the time that causes more stress and database slowing down...

That's why we try to avoid storing css files in the database and use the stored ones in the vb instead. In fact, using codes instead of plugins would certainly speed up the vb board. Remember that also good web hosting Co also play a roll in here to make things great eventually.

Alexa Traffic Rank plugin for Chrome browser can tell you whether you hosting load quality.

Good luck

--------------- Added 14 Sep 2013 at 06:29 ---------------

Originally Posted by datoneer

This is my htaccess file, where do i need to put the code?

sorry to reply late, you could shoot me a pm as a reminder...

ok, your site doesn't need only this code, but more than that. you need to fix the following:

1- Add Expires headers, here:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

2- Compress components with gzip. you need to activate this function from your php.ini if you have Linux.

3- remove jquery.twitter.js and twitter.css since they are not found...

4- you have to remove Jquery scripts that are repeated. You have 3 of them, you need only 1 and no more... this will increase your vb loading time very noticeably.

5- combine the following css files together:
dbtech_vbshout.css,
dbtech_vbshout_colours.css,
dbtech_vbshout_editor.css,
notice.css,

And put all of them in additional.css, make your you have a copy of original files just in case. Then remove the css files mentioned above from the template through you vb Admin CP.

6- last, I noticed you have a lot of png images, so it is better and sure for super performance to cut down the size of the images by compressing them:

use http://compresspng.com/ for png images.

and use http://compressjpg.com/ for jpg images.

for example, I could compress your logo from 25K PNG to 8.3K PNG, which is amazingly by (-67%)

if you have any question, please let me know.

Good luck

[friendlymela]

it will work on vb 4?

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by friendlymela

it will work on vb 4?

yes, sure it does. it works for both vb4 and vb3 without issues!