my forum loads slow

[TAMAN]

 

http://hellshammers.net/forum

I updated to ips4  2 weeks ago since then my forum became so slow 

any idea why it loads slow or is there some settings or stuff to improve the speed?

ips3 was totally fine and good. 

 

[Joel R]

I encourage you to deactivate all of your third-party applications and plugins.

You can run various tools to measure what's taking so long:

• Google PageSpeed
• Yahoo YSlow
• GTMetrix

@Adlago is especially good with this kind of stuff, so he might be able to help you   

[TAMAN]

16 minutes ago, Joel R said:

I encourage you to deactivate all of your third-party applications and plugins.

You can run various tools to measure what's taking so long:

• Google PageSpeed
• Yahoo YSlow
• GTMetrix

@Adlago is especially good with this kind of stuff, so he might be able to help you   

it would be great  thanks

[Tracy Perry]

1 hour ago, MRniceGUY1990 said:

it would be great  thanks

Big issues

Browser caching (apparently your images are not cached)
Combine images into a sprite sheet (in your case, the smilies for chat apparently primarily - which IPS does not natively support easily)
You have a 3.4MB resized GIF image being served on the main page.
You have a lot of emoticons being displayed on your main page being resized via CSS (some being displayed multiple times with multiple sends since there is no caching - plus having them in sprites would resolve some of this but IPS doesn't support sprites for the smiles easily - YAWP of IPS).

 

Here is your site compared to my landing page (using Pages) and the forums index in GT Metrix

https://gtmetrix.com/compare/RFotkAQe/f8JJqmhh/RIK2i2I3

[TAMAN]

i dont quite understand :/

when i use gtmetrix there is a huge differences in every time i analyze 

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/hellshammers.net/rGuRX0FP

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/hellshammers.net/mKg2KujR

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would you tell me what exactly u mean by Combine images into a sprite sheet? and i dont know why there is no caching!, there is alot of fked up stuff since i upgraded god why

[Tracy Perry]

16 minutes ago, MRniceGUY1990 said:

when i use gtmetrix there is a huge differences in every time i analyze 

You will get some variance... depending on some factors involved.

I'm betting your site is running under Apache.  If you are on a shared hosting, it should be a simple matter of some .htaccess entries.  I use nginx myself and run my own server.

Something like 

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

in your htaccess will help with the expires/caching issue.

The upgrading had nothing really to do with it... other than probably some display differences.  The caching is a server (HTTP) issue.

[TAMAN]

21 minutes ago, Tracy Perry said:

You will get some variance... depending on some factors involved.

I'm betting your site is running under Apache.  If you are on a shared hosting, it should be a simple matter of some .htaccess entries.  I use nginx myself and run my own server.

Something like 

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

in your htaccess will help with the expires/caching issue.

The upgrading had nothing really to do with it... other than probably some display differences.  The caching is a server (HTTP) issue.

yes im on shared hosting

Thanks for the help  

and one more question sir, what did you mean by "You have a 3.4MB resized GIF image being served on the main page." where do you check that i dont know anything about 3.4mb gif image :/

[Tracy Perry]

1 minute ago, MRniceGUY1990 said:

and one more question sir, what did you mean by "You have a 3.4MB resized GIF image being served on the main page." where do you check that i dont know anything about 3.4mb gif image :/

Apparently one of your posts has an animated gif (http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/800/447/db2.gif) in it.

[Tarun]

You could also try the htaccess I've provided. It has a lot of optimizations that work very well for any browsing member.

[TAMAN]

1 minute ago, Tracy Perry said:

uhApparently one of your posts has an animated gif (http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/800/447/db2.gif) in it.

uh this image was posted into chatbox  3 days ago :/  

i guess its all my chatbox what slows down the speed, all this custom emotions and images in the chatbox xD no wonder why its so slow 

Thanks so much for the replies sir

4 minutes ago, Tarun said:

You could also try the htaccess I've provided. It has a lot of optimizations that work very well for any browsing member.

Hi!

Where the htaccess you provided?

i have only added the one Mr @Tracy Perry posted for me :/

 

[Tarun]

You can also click on the Contributor button under people's names to see what files they've submitted.

[TAMAN]

1 minute ago, Tarun said:

You can also click on the Contributor button under people's names to see what files they've submitted.

Thank you so much sir i really appreciate it 

[Adlago]

9 hours ago, MRniceGUY1990 said:

 

http://hellshammers.net/forum

 

A little help from me. Replace your logo (209 kB) with this (39 kB)

Also, if you activate cookie-free domain and load all images and other resources from there, your YSlow will be improved by more than 5 points.

[TAMAN]

16 hours ago, Adlago said:

A little help from me. Replace your logo (209 kB) with this (39 kB)

Also, if you activate cookie-free domain and load all images and other resources from there, your YSlow will be improved by more than 5 points.

Thank you very much, sir.

would you be so kind and tell me what did you use to decrease the size?

Thank you

[Starship]

20 hours ago, Tarun said:

You can also click on the Contributor button under people's names to see what files they've submitted.

Hmzz, not bad ..

MariaDB + Memcached + SSD + 1Gbit/s + .htaccess configuration

Thanks!

[Adlago]

7 hours ago, MRniceGUY1990 said:

would you be so kind and tell me what did you use to decrease the size?

The Internet has many web tools. I use this: http://compressjpeg.com/

 

[GriefCode]

Another option would be using a precache system, like cloudflare.

 

In order to avoid any confusion for other new people who join here, and might now think they need a better server, i shortly explain why this:

9 hours ago, Afternova said:

MariaDB + Memcached + SSD + 1Gbit/s + .htaccess configuration

is only a half true statement (no offence, just the facts).

Memcached? Is only for the guest session as its mentioned in the setting. Having massive active members will still create a lot queries.

SSD? You dont' have IO issues on a web application (normally :P), so the actual speed will stay the same, since most containers/root servers have a RAID 10.

1 GBit/s? Uhm...yea, totally not important for your page speed. The connection reflects the maximum transfere rate of your server and is mainly interesting for people who provide downloads or cdn (or like gameservers, download content which is required to play). But has actually nothing todo with the page speed generally. More interesting is the guaranteed bandwidth of your server and the total requests. And that won't affect you as long as you don't have ~500+ active users.

Regards

[TAMAN]

11 hours ago, Adlago said:

The Internet has many web tools. I use this: http://compressjpeg.com/

 

Thank you. :)