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Step by Step guide to speed up your VB4 OR VB3
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28 Jul 2011
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- 4.17 average) There are several steps to improve your page loading speed. I will go over a few steps that will improve your site's loading time. Step 1: Tweak your htaccess. Open the htaccess file in your forum root and add the following below any url rewrite rules you may have from: Vbulletin 3 or 4 with VBSEO installed VB4 Forum Classic VB4 Suite VB3 by itself This covers the following Pagespeed Rules. Leverage browser caching Specify a cache validator Enable gzip compression Make the following changes in your admincp
This helps to cache nearly any file type that you may add in your attachment options (if you allow people to upload music files, zip files, rar files etc.. see the list lol) *some people report login problems, I have posted below what works for me. Be sure to do this step as well to avoid problems!! http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...php?t=267588#3 Browse to the bottom of this first post for the .htaccess code. Step 2: Optimize images There is no more need to do this for vb4 packages unless you wish to do this on other images such as avatars, custom buttons, attachments, gallery uploads etc. This covers the following PageSpeed Rules: Optimize Images If you have access to Visual Studio 2010 (grab the trial edition here which should be compatible with the addon), you can complete this step in just a few clicks using this addon http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.micr...77c3?SRC=VSIDE You can also use pnggauntlet which will compress images as well. This is great to use on new skins/themes and also non animated gifs for Smileys, Signatures, Photo Album & Group Images and Avatars that your forum stores on your server! Please note that both of these methods produce lossless images, meaning that even though it uses various methods to decrease file size there is absolutely no visual loss in quality of the image. For non-windows users, I suggest Imageoptim & Trimage If you have alot of jpeg images, you can compress 10 per day with this jpegmini. Your other options with this tool are to upload jpegs to a jpegmini album which will compress the images for free which you can download soon after! Your other option is to buy the tool for $20, which will enable you to compress a unlimited amount of jpegs, although it won't compress images above 28 MegaPixels. Optional Step 3: Add CSS Sprites. Not compatible with VB3 This covers the following PageSpeed Rules: Combine images using CSS sprites
Optional Step 4: Use a CDN Below are 3 free CDN's. I can vouch for cloudflare but have yet to try incapsula. 1) Incapsula 2) Cloudflare *Disable the Rocketloader feature to avoid potential issues. New article on how to setup your forum for HTTPS with cloudflare (Optional) Step 5: Make a free Server Optimization request Now that you've done all of the steps above, there is one final thing left to do if you are using a vps or dedi, tweak the Server! You can go here to request a free tuneup: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...-configuration Here's one additional trick to help improve your seo btw: [SEO Enhancement] Replace "reload this page" to the thread title [v1.00] Enjoy! Optional (Recommended) Step 7: Lazy load images. Lazy Load will delay the loading of images outside of viewpoint to make the page load faster. That is, images in the visible part of the web page are only loaded and remaining images are loaded when visitor scrolls down the page, at some times it can even helps to save bandwidth. Consider linking to us at http://video-game-chat.com/forum to help show your appreciation, since you'll be saving bandwith, reducing the loading time and thus keeping more visitors who visit your site. And impoving seo as google is now factoring in loading times into it's algorithms. Test your page speed & yslow score's If you would like to test your website and see what changes need to be made while you follow any part of this guide you can do so at several sites: GTMetrix Webpage Test Pingdom Here's a new htaccess that I've been testing, it's pretty solid so far. Simply throw in your url rewrite rules (for friendly urls).... this part may confuse people... they are usually located near the top of an existing htaccess file. Example of what rewrite rules look like...
Throw that in between the #add your friendly url rewrite rules below. lines and your set! Another identifier is to look to see if the threads, forums, members etc are being affected by any rules in the old .htaccess... if so.. throw that in and you should have no problems.
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28 Jul 2011, 23:48
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Just a quick note, for the .htaccess, starting in 4.1.5
becomes
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29 Jul 2011, 00:15
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Fixing login issues with vbulletin 4.
Disable vbulletin content caching (since apache is handling that now) AdminCP > Options > Server Settings and Optimization Options > Disable Content Caching: Set to yes *Note these changes did not show immediately for me but they did show that they were working for me after roughly 15 minutes. Last edited by final kaoss; 17 Apr 2017 at 18:30.
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29 Jul 2011, 14:11
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Originally Posted by extreme-gaming
Maybe rephrase that to only remove it if you haven't added any custom CSS.
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29 Jul 2011, 14:12
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True, most people however are unaware of it's presence.
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29 Jul 2011, 19:33
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Thanks, will be keeping an eye on this article, I just started tweaking my htaccess file for cache and wanted to look into compression as well.
Question though:
What is this and where does it display? Also does this require enabling mod rewrite friendly urls? in the admin control panel
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29 Jul 2011, 21:00
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That set's the etags.
And this part identifies what set it (can be changed) Header set X-Powered-By Run a test at http://gtmetrix.com, click timeline, expand an element and you will see details about that request including X-Powered-By No, it doesn't require enabling friendly urls in the admincp. You can still take advantage of the seo friendly urls by selecting this option in your admin cp. Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs The following members like this post: TheRed
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30 Jul 2011, 07:27
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I set up Cloudflare last week.
I'll do the Supercharged mod today. I already have mod-rewrite friendly urls. No members have liked this post.
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30 Jul 2011, 18:49
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I think the caching of javascript doesn't play well with the login systen, in Firefox4 and IE9.
People will log in, it'll display the thank you for logging in, and then they will come back to a page that appears to have them not logged in. Either the caching or the compression not sure which. Chrome seems to be unaffected
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30 Jul 2011, 18:52
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Originally Posted by Crotan
Yeah it's doing some weird stuff on my forum. I had to disable twitter style login.
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30 Jul 2011, 19:06
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Hi crotan, is this with vb supercharged installed or did you install the htaccess only? I would have to say caching is the issue here imho.
Originally Posted by Crotan
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30 Jul 2011, 19:17
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Originally Posted by extreme-gaming
just the htaccess on post #3, since I'm on 4.1.5
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30 Jul 2011, 19:21
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Try removing these lines from it
AddType application/x-javascript .js ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A31536000 Also, change this line <FilesMatch "\.(css|js|CSS|JS)$"> to <FilesMatch "\.(css|CSS)$"> No members have liked this post.
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30 Jul 2011, 19:29
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Seem to still have issues, I took out
This is now only.
from the original
But still this htaccess interferes with the login of users on IE and Firefox :/
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30 Jul 2011, 19:30
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ok. At least now we know that caching isn't the issue here. Actually... first... I want you to clear your browser cache and try again with those lines removed.
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