Er, isn't this kind of an ironic thing to say on site where all use the exact same forum script?
Not at all. Using the same forum script is much different than copying a site. Don't you think?
At any rate, I don't think the op was looking to clone the site anyways. I think he just wanted to use some aspects which is cool. At first glance though from the title it appeared the idea was to "do my site like this". lol
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Originally Posted by Max Taxable
People WILL tolerate alot for a site with the right niche. Slow loading, bloat, adverts, even spam. Plus there's always the herd mentality, the sheep factor. Plus once a site is designated a authority by google and other search sites, it definitely gets the traffic. Snowball effect.
It doesn't change the fact that they have alot of optimization work to do and that it is proven, slow loading does hurt the bottom line. Article on that here.
Here's their vBulletin installation test by the way, it's a 4.1.4 and it is terrible - not for glut, but for loading. Three test attempts and never could get it to not time out, using IE 11.
To the OP - Richie has a great point about being a "me too" or a copycat. You most especially don't want to copy the bloat!
Honestly I visit that site almost on a daily basis and I really never noticed any loading time issues. It always seems fairly quick to me but then again I am not running a test on it, just going to the site.
I agree about not copying the bloat because most average hosts or servers would probably not handle it so well.
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i agree, but my site if for dreadlocks not body building. The intension is to build the features and tailor them for dreadlocks developement
You never know! You just could turn out to be the BB.com of dreadlocks! Now that would be cool!
Honestly I visit that site almost on a daily basis and I really never noticed any loading time issues. It always seems fairly quick to me but then again I am not running a test on it, just going to the site.
Right and, your browser caching it is why what we see when we load a site on our computers is subjective. It's "fast" because you have alot of its elements cached.
Right and, your browser caching it is why what we see when we load a site on our computers is subjective. It's "fast" because you have alot of its elements cached.
oh crap, that means my site must be really flippin slow to people on it for the first time! There would be no way of me knowing
Not at all. Using the same forum script is much different than copying a site. Don't you think?
My point is, "copying" something we see on someone else's site is pretty much what we did the first time we saw someone using vBulletin and decided to get one of our own.
oh crap, that means my site must be really flippin slow to people on it for the first time! There would be no way of me knowing
As a webmaster, I'm sure you have installed more than one browser for testing purposes. While you probably use one on a day to day basis, use another one for testing such stuff. Make sure you clear the cache before doing speed tests.
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