Step by Step guide to speed up your VB4 OR VB3

[final kaoss]

It's pretty interesting that it didn't happen on my end, only on yours.

[8thos]

I've done Step 2 with Cloudflare CDN instead of using supercharged. Supercharged just causes problems.

Do not activate Rocket Load on Cloudflare though.

Step 4 United Forum Sprites actually slowed my site down.

I'll try Step 3 later.

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Step 3, you have to create a new domain and cname entry right? That's what page speed and webpagetest.org is telling me. It's telling me to put my whole images folder there.

[final kaoss]

Step 3 deals with reducing the total KB of images & what kind of problems did supercharged cause?

[eva2000]

Thought I'd chime in with a note/tip - just be careful when implementing all this solely via .htaccess. If you have VPS or dedicated server you may already have some of the optimisations configured and setup directly via httpd.conf or httpd.conf include files (i.e. in whm/cpanel) which is the more optimal way of implementing these optimisations.

More online tools and tests for you to check your progress posted on my personal blog at http://vbtechsupport.com/388/

HTH

George

[Buray Savas ANI]

Hi, how to use with vbseo?

[final kaoss]

I don't have vbseo so I can't inform you much about that.

You will want to use vbseo's friendly url rewriting code in the htaccess instead of the one posted here though. So in your case, copy the contents of the htaccess file into the htaccess that vbseo creates. Remove the following code from it and save. I don't believe vb supercharged plays well with vbseo but I'm not sure.

#Author: Extreme Gaming
#Friendly Urls By: Matty Asia
# Version 1.8
# Usable from vbulletin 4.0.0 - 4.1.4
# Special Thanks Goes to W3Total Cache for much of the htaccess rules
# Downloaded from: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=267588
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Mozilla/4\.76 \[en\] \(Windows NT 5\.0; U\)"
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Options +FollowSymLinks
### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED
#RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
#RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
#RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php
### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^widget/config/([0-9]+) widget.php?r=config/$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]
## Rewrites
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]

[8thos]

How do you prevent static images from using cookies? I keep failing this in webpagetest.org.

Proper cookie usage: 40/100

[final kaoss]

I believe for that step domain sharding removes the cookies. I'll have to post back after I look it up a bit more.


YSlow recommends:

To work around this problem, make sure that static components are requested with cookie-free requests by creating a subdomain and hosting them there.

If your domain is www.example.org, you can host your static components on static.example.org. However, if you've already set cookies on the top-level domain example.org as opposed to www.example.org, then all the requests to static.example.org will include those cookies.

In this case, you can buy a whole new domain, host your static components there, and keep this domain cookie-free.

Yahoo! uses yimg.com, YouTube uses ytimg.com, Amazon uses images-amazon.com and so on.
http://developer.yahoo.com/performan...ml#cookie_free

[8thos]

Originally Posted by extreme-gaming

I believe for that step domain sharding removes the cookies. I'll have to post back after I look it up a bit more.


YSlow recommends:

To work around this problem, make sure that static components are requested with cookie-free requests by creating a subdomain and hosting them there.

If your domain is www.example.org, you can host your static components on static.example.org. However, if you've already set cookies on the top-level domain example.org as opposed to www.example.org, then all the requests to static.example.org will include those cookies.

In this case, you can buy a whole new domain, host your static components there, and keep this domain cookie-free.

Yahoo! uses yimg.com, YouTube uses ytimg.com, Amazon uses images-amazon.com and so on.
http://developer.yahoo.com/performan...ml#cookie_free

Would this work?

Admin CP/Cookies and HTTP Header Options

Path to save cookies / (leave blank)
Cookie Domain (use custom setting) www.the8thlegion.com

Then create CNAME entry A

subdomain: images.the8thlegion.com

Move images folder to images.the8thlegion.com or have the folder redirected to it?

[final kaoss]

I believe from what I've been reading is that if your forum is in the root, then it sharding won't work (because the cookies affect any subfolders within, just like a htaccess does to folders if it's set at the root). Cookies will still be delivered. If you make a folder for your forum and move it there to like /forum, then the subdomain sharding would work to prevent cookies.