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I've tried out lots of things in this thread over the past couple of years and overall it's been really helpful so thank you first of all.

After researching and researching it seems like vB biggest problem is loading javascript in a bad way that doesn't allow parallel downloading when going through the html header. I've chatted with you about ways to try to compress the JS files but I'm not confident I can do that correctly. It seems like if there were a good fix for the JS files then it would be available, right?

What I do think is a good idea is using a CDN to load the CSS and JS. Images should go there too but I think the first two file types cause the biggest problems. Now there are lots of options out there for CDNs but I believe it's possible to mimic a CDN by creating a subdomain on one's own site to load from. Is that correct? If so, do you know of anyone doing this for a vB forum?

Here is my gtmetrix report if you are interested. Our load time is horrible according to them but for me it's usually lightning quick to load. I feel like Google Adsense will add one 1-2 seconds to a page sometimes but the real content is already loaded by then.