[jl255]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

Bots and search engines don't need the link in order to crawl it, most bots have a preprogrammed list of urls to start at. You can leave online.php enabled including the links but you turn off all guest privilidges to view it, do the same for the stats.

I think Max_Taxable is making reference mostly to your host, your system, provided by the host, is delivering the first byte, or if you like shaking hands with the person requesting the page, in far to long a time.

As for your requests either reduce the number of stats you show and auxiliary bits n pieces or use some type of compression, try to amalgamate js files and minify them, compress your css files. Change your images from being a lot of individual images to one sprite and then deliver them from co-ordinates on the sprite.

There really is a ton of stuff to do if you know how and can be bothered ( I don't say that like you're not I say it because sometimes it all gets a bit to much and can put you off)!

tks for the tips. online.php permissions have been turned off for guests as suggested.

i have contacted my host to see what they can do about the first byte issue.

i am contemplating a redesign of the forum and will definitely get the coder to look into your suggestions on compression and sprites.

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Actually, no they are not.

Having the URL be "cdn.mysite/image" is NOT the same thing as having a CDN.

Here's every image your site loads, none of them are coming from a actual CDN.

http://www.webpagetest.org/pageimage...run=1&cached=0

Here are the details of your pageload, every call and how it served. No CDN here either.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/13...M2J/1/details/

Bingo.

hmm, cdn.xxxx.com is setup to point to my amazon cdn account where a copy of the image files reside as well. how do you tell if they come from the actual CDN?