Add-On Releases - YSLOW 1.0.3 (Make Your Forum Faster)

Info
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This mod can make your vbulletin seem faster.

It works only with apache. It works with VB 3.5.X, VB 3.6.x, VB 3.7.x ...


How it works: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

bbs.SiKua.com

Update
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1.0.1 First release.
1.0.2 Correct the problem of the Charset.
1.0.2 fix the bug [s]that's not work with vbseo.[/s]
1.0.2 fix the bug [s]by forum on the different directory[/s].
1.0.3 A very important update for safe.
1.0.3 fix the bug [s]that YSLOW do PHP source reads.[/s]
1.0.3 【Thanks very much to bahisyeri】
1.0.3 Adjustment server load and speed to an acceptable set .



INSTALLED
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If you have any piont please leave your replay, and it will be helpful.

IF YOU LIKE IT , PLEASE MARK AS INSTALLED


What does it do?
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Add an Expires header

Adding an Expires header to your components with a date in the future makes them cacheable, reducing the load time of your pages. Certainly this should be done with images, but that's fairly typical. Go a step further and add it to scripts and stylesheets, too. This won't affect performance the first time users hit your page, but on subsequent page views it could reduce response times by 50% or more.

Gzip componentes

Gzipping all the js and css files types to reduce page weight. The greatest advantage is compressed to reduce the amount of data transmission network, thereby improving the client browser access speed. Of course, but also increase the burden on the server a little bit. Gzip is a more common form of HTTP compression algorithm.

Configure ETags

1. Client requests a page (A).
2. The server Back to A, and A to add a ETag.
3. Client display the page, and pages together with the ETag cache.
4. Customers once again request pages A, and the last request to the server to return to the ETag transmitted to the server.
5. Server checks the ETag, and to determine the page since the last client request has not been modified, to return to direct response to a 304 (Not Modified) and a response of the air.
So. ETag is a Tag to your components to see if they has been modified. If not here will be no request happened. Configure it is a good way.

Easy Install
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1. Upload all the content to your forum directory.
2. There is no step two. It's done.

UNinstall
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1. Remove all.
2. Done.

If
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If the mod does not work,open and edit httpd.conf like this:
find:
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
remove # as:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
save, and restart apache, then it's should be OK.
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IF there has a .htaccess File in your forum root directory yet, Do not cover it, open the .htaccess in the zip,copy all the code,add below your own .htaccess.
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[needaltuna]

Thank you.

[tanujdude91]

Very Nice Hack...Made by forum faster....I'm using vbseo too

[dharam kundra]

hey guys i have uploaded the redir.php but not the htaccess beacuse my hosting does not support ht access!

1)is it compulsoary tht both should be uploaded
2)hw to know tht this hack is working
3)if htaccess has to be put then where beacuse when i uploaded it i had internal server error 500 my Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) was not working plz tell guys asap!

[dharam kundra]

hey guys plz reply back fast waiting plz do quick!

[emtee]

1) Both files have to be uploaded. If your host doesn't support uploading .htaccess then this mod is NOT for you. Period.

2) This hack is working. You can see the difference when the forum loads (before & after). But you have to uninstall it when turning off the board for modification, backup, etc...

3) File .htaccess needs to be upload in your forum dir (same level as index.php, infraction.php, newthread.php, newreply.php etc...)

[bahisyeri]

Originally Posted by sross

I'm pretty confused about this. In vbulletin settings it states:



vbulletin recommends this but if you are saying i will have better performance i guess i will disable it and give it a go.

Also, this is weird.. i am running vbseo fine yet see no .htaccess in my forum root, i thought vbseo has an .htaccess in the forum root? I made a fake .htaccess2 file and can see it. Will check vbseo site
*nevermind, found it in plesk filemanager

Yes you can get better performance but your forum pages will not updated for your users.
Who is getting typing problems or anything else like this check your .htaccess files and be sure you did not do something faulty and if your shoutbox or anything uses javascript check its code and be sure it does not have something faulty, this mod just uses default zlib extension of php and uses it for compressing and one person faced problem with sitemap be sure for .htaccess code and check for sitemap lines on it.

[msalman]

In Firefox/Mozilla, it seems when you hit the refresh button, the images and javascript files do not load up. Is there a way to get around it?

[Sakai Ray]

Thanks and clicked =]

[pedroenf]

Originally Posted by msalman

In Firefox/Mozilla, it seems when you hit the refresh button, the images and javascript files do not load up. Is there a way to get around it?

If you're running VBSEO try this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=240

[MOGmartin]

Originally Posted by tokenyank

Using this hack will save me (everyone will be different depending on how big the forum is) almost 2mb of bandwidth per 10 impressions (roughly, it's late, I can't be arsed to do the maths! ) so on a site like mine that does over 4 million impressions a month, my bandwidth consumption will be considerably lower as well as my users not being forced to download 1/5th of a meg every time they visit the site.

Just to reinforce the previous post, I have this MOD installed on a board with 1,400 to 2,000 daily active users, I have 30 other mods installed and my forums are NOT heavy on graphics, just the main logo and the VERY occasional image (and a few banner adverts mind you).

My speed has increased dramatically - If I had to numerate it I would say by at least 50%, and my bandwidth usage has dropped by a similar amount.

As I use between 50gb and 80gb per month of data, thats a HUGE saving.

I am nominating this for MOTM immediately, this is the number one best mod I have installed!!!

MOGmartin