Is your vBulletin too fat?

Noodles · #1 08-08-2007, 03:21 AM

vBSEO goes a long way to help with speeding up the download of your vBulletin pages by stripping out whitespace and comments, but the javascript that's included into each page may be slowing down your site.

I've started down the track of developing some tools to help speed up vBulletin and improve site scores on YSlow.

The first is a minimized version of the Javascript that comes with vBulletin.

More info: Noodles’ Blog Blog Archive vBulletin JS Min

Stay tuned for more performance tips and tools.

dutchbb · #2 08-08-2007, 02:40 PM

Thanks, I'll try this out and see what it does with the bandwidth and speed

(btw: you can post an article about this here when you have more tips

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Nneel · #3 10-30-2007, 06:30 AM

read about in many places...but just cant find it...

thnx

Code Monkey · #4 10-30-2007, 03:28 PM

javascript that is a separate file is cached by the users browser.

briansol · #5 10-30-2007, 04:00 PM

While it's a nice bandaid, the real problem is the over-use of JS in the first place, and even more so, the use of including the JS in the body of documents by the elements.

sure, it makes it easier to just include the quick reply js with the quick reply template, but for professional software, they should have taken the time to include them in the header with conditionals upon what page it is... or even better, Use their own damn hook system. I'm pretyt sure there's a couple for the head.

:shrug:

Code Monkey · #6 10-30-2007, 05:05 PM

It's sad to see some of the newer mods that include some huge prefab js library to do a little task when they could have written their own smaller task specific code.

I try to write my own and use functions and vars already in vBulletin.

KW802 · #7 10-30-2007, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

It's sad to see some of the newer mods that include some huge prefab js library to do a little task when they could have written their own smaller task specific code.

I try to write my own and use functions and vars already in vBulletin.

Definitely. Nothing is more irking then seeing a vB mod/hack touted as being full of AJAX-goodness only to find out that the person did not use any of the existing vB libraries and instead simply used a third-party library which you must then include.

Noodles · #8 10-30-2007, 07:47 PM

I've changed the method of optimizing, rather than pre optimizing js I've found/modified a script that will do it on the fly and cache the results. Seems very fast and has brought down the front end payload on my sites.

Results here: Noodles’ Blog Blog Archive Optimized vBulletin (Part 2)

If anyone wants to try it on their site give me a PM. I'm not ready to launch it to everyone yet as I have a few other things I want to add in.

Nneel · #9 12-01-2007, 04:22 AM

subscribed to this thread...to stay updated..

thompson · #10 12-27-2007, 07:39 AM

anyone tested this ?