[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by jl255

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.




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?

There's no actual, real Content Delivery Network (CDN) involved in your pageload, is all I know. You can put images in a 3rd party server all day long and point the script to those files on that server, doesn't make it a cloud server or a CDN. Look at the webpage test results - it's clear and evident that your "CDN" not only is causing many more unnecessary calls, it's also actually slowing your page load down. See that big black X at the upper right hand corner of the test page under "Effective use of CDN?"