Recommended Optimizing Mods?

I'm trying out this vB Optimise 2.0.1, and I'm enabling Xcache on my server as well to help speed up my site.

Is there any better or other recommended mods or ways of truly speeding up a forum?

Brian Cummiskey has informed me that my site was too slow, so I'm trying to speed it up anyway I can.

I'm noticing this has caused a ton of 304 errors? What will this do?

304 aren't error codes. They basically mean 'skip, user already has it in their browser cache'.

Officially, we don't recommend any other plugins as we have no control over them nor dissect their inner workings.

We do however support using ser-ver side cachers like xcache and memcache, utlizing a cdn, combining styles and js as much as possible, and on and on.

WebPagetest is a great tool. If you can get all A's and B's on the top, you're in good shape.

I've added the Xcache, and the vBoptimise, and it really almost did NOTHING. I'm a little shocked.

Page Speed Score: 75/100

A - Keep-alive Enabled
F - Compress Text
A - Compress Images
F - Cache Static Content
F - Combine JS/CSS Files
F - Use of CDN

It's pretty strict on how it grades. Don't go so much by the total score, but rather click on the top nabar tabs there to each section and look for things you can improve easily.


There is a mod on .org from js/css cobinations that you may want to look into. I personally haven't used it yet as its for vb4 only.

If you aim to speed i recommend use faster hosting and for apache DEFLATE module + some on code optimizations. You can remove some pieces of template or prefer lighter templates. You should find somebody who can aplly these recommened changes on css and js. BTW Xcache is the best cacher. And CDN can really help.

I can't move my hosting at this point, I've been with the same place forever. I have over 35+ urls with them.

I use a VPS, for both data and database.

Can you add more ram?

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Can you add more ram?

I have, and it did nothing. As far as the charts go it's not using much ram in or processor. I have a lot of headroom.

How about disk i/o. large, slow disks can cause this as well.

That I can't tell, I don't have that information.

Do you have a control panel for your MAIN vps (not site level, server level), like WHM?

pm'd you with a list of server config options i have. on top of what i sent you i can mange the memory used on both the data server and the database server.

Can I disable Mod_PHP?

not unless you switch to fastcgi, or another method of serving php.