Major Additions - TfSEO 2: the free vBulletin url rewrite

TfSEO 2.1

TfSEO is a powerful and free url rewrite for the vBulletin system: it rewrite forum, thread and post urls.
For me it's very hard to explain well all the feature of this plugin, soo the best way is test it.

How much does it weight on the server?

I have tested on my home server:

TfSEO enabled, heavy:

[root@hserver ~]# ab -n 100  http://hserver/tfseo_1/main-forum-f2/dsadas-t4
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking hserver (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.3
Server Hostname:        hserver
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /tfseo_1/main-forum-f2/dsadas-t4
Document Length:        33804 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   22.177687 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      3420400 bytes
HTML transferred:       3380400 bytes
Requests per second:    4.51 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       221.777 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       221.777 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          150.60 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:   220  221   0.7    221     223
Waiting:      209  210   0.8    210     213
Total:        220  221   0.7    221     223

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    221
  66%    221
  75%    222
  80%    222
  90%    222
  95%    222
  98%    223
  99%    223
 100%    223 (longest request)

TfSEO disabled, standart vburl:

[root@hserver ~]# ab -n 100  http://hserver/tfseo_1/showthread.php?p=4#post4
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking hserver (be patient).....done


Server Software:        Apache/2.2.3
Server Hostname:        hserver
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /tfseo_1/showthread.php?p=4#post4
Document Length:        34010 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   21.870820 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      3441000 bytes
HTML transferred:       3401000 bytes
Requests per second:    4.57 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       218.708 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       218.708 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          153.63 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Processing:   216  218   0.9    218     220
Waiting:      205  207   0.9    208     209
Total:        216  218   0.9    218     220
WARNING: The median and mean for the waiting time are not within a normal deviat                                                                                                 ion
        These results are probably not that reliable.

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    218
  66%    218
  75%    219
  80%    219
  90%    219
  95%    219
  98%    220
  99%    220
 100%    220 (longest request)

Like you can see product takes about +10ms per request.

Live Demos

1. Light
2. Medium
3. Heavy

AdminCP Demo:

For Support and question you can contact me at davide {at} techforum .it

This product will be updatefor long time, I welcome (and really do ask for) any feedback, suggestions, issues, etc...

If you install it, click install.

Note: vbulletin will have by default a rewrite system from version 4.0 (beta should coming next month, april). I relly suggest you to wait, and not use this product. If the vb's rewrite will be great, i will no more update this product.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by Sadikb

Hi Gene,

I went through your site, How long have you been using it? and are you using the "heavy" or the "medium" setting?

I use "heavy," which also parses the names of the forums, rather than only show the numbers.

Of course, we have a dedicated server and XCache installed, and I had the admins at HostGator do the optimizations recommended by vBulletin, so we are probably getting performance that's as good as it gets for that app.

Peace,
Gene

[Jaxel]

I've also noticed that the VBAdvanced extension doesnt work with the recent threads module, in addition to the uncached templates.

Also... I had to turn off the Rewrite Engine for my image directories for Wiki and Albums.

[gfxhelp.com]

Anyone having issues with IE? I click a thread in FF and it shows:
http://www.gfx-help.com/GeneralChat-f92/testing-t27/
in IE it shows
http://www.gfx-help.com/edit-this-fr...2/testing-t27/

[Jaxel]

gfxhelp... you are using the Heavy Method... in the Heavy Method, you can define keywords for forums directly in your admin cp. "edit-this-from-admincp-THEN-forum" is telling you that you haven't defined that forum's keywords yet.

[Jaxel]

Just found a new bug...

In search results (New Posts, Today's Posts as well), all forum links dont work. The link to the thread works, but the link to the forum doesnt. Does not work with Light, Medium or Heavy... links work again once I turn SEO off...

Someone please confirm.

[Jaxel]

Okay... another new bug... I have the legacy postbit selection mod installed...

If a user is using the legacy postbit, they get uncached templates:

Uncached templates: pagenav (1)
Uncached templates: pagenav_pagelink (1)

TfSEO also kills the HIGHLIGHT function for search results.

[gfxhelp.com]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

gfxhelp... you are using the Heavy Method... in the Heavy Method, you can define keywords for forums directly in your admin cp. "edit-this-from-admincp-THEN-forum" is telling you that you haven't defined that forum's keywords yet.

Hey Jaxel,

Have a look, go to:
-http://www.gfx-help.com/index.php

- Click "General Chat" and it shows
http://www.gfx-help.com/GeneralChat-f92/

-Then click "Test 5" and the url changes and shows...
http://www.gfx-help.com/edit-this-fr...92/test-5-t28/

I am using heavy mode, I double checked the htaccess and it's got all of the changes needed. I also have that forum's keyword set to "GeneralChat", as you can see when you go to the category, but once you click into a thread it switches to edit-this-from-admincp-than-forum-f92. Am I missing something?

Also, in my previous post I said it was an IE only issue, but it happens in all browsers, I'm not sure why I didn't notice earlier....

Thanks

[gfxhelp.com]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Just found a new bug...

In search results (New Posts, Today's Posts as well), all forum links dont work. The link to the thread works, but the link to the forum doesnt. Does not work with Light, Medium or Heavy... links work again once I turn SEO off...

Someone please confirm.

Confirmed

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Okay... another new bug... I have the legacy postbit selection mod installed...

If a user is using the legacy postbit, they get uncached templates:

Uncached templates: pagenav (1)
Uncached templates: pagenav_pagelink (1)

TfSEO also kills the HIGHLIGHT function for search results.

I'm not sure about the template issue, but I can confirm it removed the "highlight" from the links in the search results.

[Jaxel]

Hmm... yeah, the template issue randomly fixed itself... so that bug is fixed...

As for your Heavy Method problem... I dont see why you need to even use the Heavy Method if the keywords you are putting in are the same as the forum name anyways... Just use the Medium Method. The medium method creates the keywords based on the forum name to begin with... all the heavy method does is let you define them to something different.

[Jaxel]

Okay... found another broken link... the "View Post" link on soft-deleted posts doesnt work...

So, right now there are two things broken that I have found...
* View Posts on soft-deleted posts
* Forum links on search results