[Dunhamzzz]

This seems to be more of a collaboration of other material as opposed to a helpful article. Looking at all the suggestions it's hard to work out what bottleneck you are actually trying to reduce. Server Runtime? Bandwidth? Browser-Rendering? In improving one, you're likely to worsen another.

- You need to explain those htaccess improvements, for one the 2 different "hacks" will simply over ride each other in some way, they may even over ride other elements if the user is unfamiliar with .htaccess and just overwrites their valuable vbSEO htaccess. You might want to mention that the .htaccess rules herewill make users cache everything for AGES; meaning if you edit a style once applying them, returning users won't ever see any updates you've made unless they do a cache refresh (ctrl + f5). Don't get me wrong, those caching parameters are pretty amazing at doing their job, props to the author.

- I agree with others, removing CSS rounded corners will only speed up browser-rendering and in new browsers possibly not even that much - actually not even at all in Internet Explorer.

- To be effective, you need to come up with ways to speed up your forum without turning loads of features off

- It's clear that vb4 is actually quite server intensive, so that's what needs to be worked on for most things. Some of those mods, like the "super charged" mod you mention actually ADDS processes in that it minifies the CSS/JS to save bandwith, they'll download faster sure, but there are now extra things running on an already bogged down server. The "download faster" argument is actually pretty invalid with the above .htaccces caching rules!

- This:

<META http-equiv=Page-Exit content=BlendTrans(Duration=0)>
<META http-equiv=Page-Enter content=BlendTrans(Duration=0)>

Doesn't actually do much either! It only works in IE and and isn't even properly formed HTMl.