How much GET time should VBseo add to the forum.php?

[swiftor]

Hi, I've been trying to figure out why the load times are much higher than other vbulletin forums, including vbseo.com

Using the Net tab under Firebug when loading my forum home in firefox, my forum.php has a GET time of 1.5 seconds on the first load, and 1.2seconds on the 2nd load.

When disabling the vbseo plugin, it shaves 600ms off the first load, and 300ms off the second load.

I know vbseo is an intensive plugin, it does a lot of awesome stuff, but I was wondering if it is typical for vbseo to add that kind of overhead to the load, or is mine abnormally large?

I am not a server admin, so I can't speak so much for technical specifics, but I am on a pretty beefy server, and I did my testing during very low load. I am on the solo express 850 plan at servint, and my forums are the only things that run on it:

Quad Core Xeon® X3430 Processor
4 x 2.4 GHz Cores
8 MB L3 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB
8 GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory
500 GB Usable Storage

Any thoughts our guidance? I'd love to know how I compare to others, and any suggestions on how I can optimize my load times.

Thanks!

[Brian Cummiskey]

Check that your htacess matches your vboptions -> site url path for www's or non-www's. If they are mis-matched, it will perform a redirect.

[Brian Cummiskey]

You should also re-name forum.php to index.php and make the adjustment in vbotions -> forum home options -> script name
and the homePage settings in vbseoCP.

Just remember to do this every time you upgrade vb (as index.php will be over-written with vb's redirector index.php)

[Brian Cummiskey]

You also have a 301 on an image.

http://forums.swiftor.com/images/icons/icon1.gif

check your templates.

[swiftor]

Many thanks Brian, i will check all that out!