I use ServInt for my servers, and they are renouned as having highly optimised, proficient servers... I have now tried this mod over the course of VB4 development, and every single time it has slowed the delivery and increased the actual pages size. I just thought I would give it another shot on 4.0.3, same thing. It just took the browsers compressed page from just over 500kb to over 800kb by implementing this mod.

I am glad it helps others, but I would honestly say for anyone who is on highly optimised servers with a lot of custom server code, that this may slow your end result than speed it up.

Please don't get me wrong, I am well aware that DarkImmortal is one hell of a coder, and this is certainly no slant against them, but more an awareness that this may not suit someone on highly optimised servers that already deliver at the ultimate level possible to the user.

BUG:
with vBSEO and vBSC installed pm notifications popup doesn't create a new tab/window

Installed vBSEO 3.5 RC3 on vB4.0.3 with latest vBSC

Please fix that :)

Thanks

StarBuG

What settings were you using and can I have a link to your site?

I can confirm this as well.

I'm currently trying to get a test license for vBSEO so I can fix the various conflicts.

EDIT: Got one :D :D :D

I went from over 500kb to over 300kb, but uninstalling this product.

If download size matters so much, I suppose I should get round to making the Javascript optimiser work without the common script cache. Then it would be marginally lower on top of most of the other benefits.

In my case addon adds 100Kb more to download (VBulletin scripts are pretty much compressed already). And I noticed, that css files are not replaced by their compressed variants on some reason (option on this is enabled).

Here are my YSlow results with and w/o addon:

The total download size is not what this mod is designed to fix/improve - it's more focused on perceptible load speed on a primed cache. Is that not what matters on a forum?

May be it is, but I don't see any reason why optimization mod should add anything to things, I already have.
Anyway, it works good without glitches. And it really improves website ratio for Google PageSpeed and Yahoo Yslow. In my case it didn't replace css files with a compressed version however...