[Logician]

PERFORMANCE ISSUES:

New version is coded from the ground to perform "very well" even under heavy load. Bottlenecks of the old version has been cured and although new version has many new and advanced features, it performs much better (upto 2-3 times faster) compared to the old version.

A webtemplate has an average of 12-18 queries per page. How many query you will depends on which features you enabled for that webtemplate and how many webqueries you use in it. However averagely a webtemplate will have around half the queries your default vbulletin thread display page has, so server performance is better even compared to default vbulletin thread display pages. In other words your visitors will be using more server power when they read a vbulletin thread in your site, than they are reading a webtemplate.

However always bear in mind that webtemplates, vbulletin itself, or any other dynamic PHP pages which make connection to MYSQL database can never be as "performance friendly" as static HTML pages. Static HTML pages is not dynamic (so does not change according to different conditions etc.) but much less server intensive. So especially in heavy loaded servers and for heavy traffic pages, you may want to use default static .html pages especially if you are not after having a dynamic content in them.

But if you are ready to use a dynamic script/structure/software/solution then webtemplates is NOT a performance killer, you can enjoy this hack.

If you use it under heavy traffic conditions, there are many performance tips included in the help document webtemplate, I advice you to check it out.

Webtemplates is also 100% compatible with Teck's Microstats hack so you can monitor webtemplate page creation time, thus performance if you are using Microstats hack in your board. Just add {getmicrostats} into your footer webtemplates to display them in your all webtemplates.