Use Remote YUI

Hi all,
i have a question,
can i use the vb option "Use Remote YUI" with SEO?

If i set this option to yes, this, can cause some problem with SEO?

Thanks

There should be no issues related to vBSEO with that option.

I use it with no issues

Does this setting help in any way? Speed, perhaps? Any potential negative implications?

I suggest using it. Odds are, a user has been to yahoo or google or another vb forum and has the script cached already. Plus, it saves your bandwidth.

Thanks, Brian. I set it to "Yahoo", and I wonder if there is any difference in performance achievable by selecting "Google" or "Yahoo"?

Probably not much. Google just recently starated hsoting the code, so yahoo probably still has more cache fills.

Brian, thanks. I'm leaving it set to Yahoo then.

It appeared to me this morning that the Google server was a bit faster, but my guess was that more sites used Yahoo for this since this was a Yahoo product, so I set it to Yahoo.

I think eventually, moving to google will be the correct choice. They have more servers and better geo-targetting. Probably 6-9 months from now, i will switch to google.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

I think eventually, moving to google will be the correct choice. They have more servers and better geo-targetting. Probably 6-9 months from now, i will switch to google.

Did you Brian or do you have any more thoughts on this. After the yahoo patch I'm wondering if it's worth swapping back or just sticking with google?

With the use of the CDN, i host my own now. Saves a DNS look up.

but, there's still the self-hosted exploit that i'm awaiting feedback from vb about still.
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...=1#post2165725

Hmm, thanks Brian for the link. So it seems the patch doesn't include a new local version of YUI! There's no point then for me to even bather with the patch! This is upsetting!

I, just like you, serve my own, to save a DNS look up, and I combined my .js files to save http requests, too. I'm not about to revert these improvements now.

Yeah, same here. I modded my template heavily to use the minify engine too.

I'm probably just going to download the YUI files from the code source and upload myself when i get a chance.

I have no clue why they would even bother releasing a patch that addresses the issue just for a segment of the customer base, not for all of them, especially when the solution seems to be so easy.

Brian, do you think there is a possibility the full upgrade actually does include the new YUI version, and it's only the patch that doesn't install it?

The full upgrade is nothing more than the patch, but everything from what i can tell.

I'm still trying to figure out what exactly needs to be replaced.

I DL'ed 2.9.0 source from
http://yui.zenfs.com/releases/yui2/yui_2.9.0.zip

I over-wrote the yahoo-dom-event.js from and the file size is about 2kb larger. Everything seems to be working so far on my 3.8.5 build.

connection.js is WAY off file size, so i don't know what to do....

Will try all the files one at a time and then commit the class_core yui version definition to 2.9.0 and see what happens i guess.