Forum slow to load.

[heydoon]

Thought it was my server specs.

Upgraded server and page still takes average of 4.7secs to load.

I've tried updating my htaccess with no increase.

https://gtmetrix.com/reports/bwgforums.com/vblE0S0T

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Numbered]

As the gmetrix said - work with your upload folder.

Most good solution for make them better - use storage service with cdn for uploaded files and theme css/resources.

If you don't want to use other storage services or cdn you can create pseudo-storage service. For example, make a A-record, like cdn.bwgforums.com, which has an ip-address to the same server. Configure your web server for make root folder to this domain to /uploads (and not needed to create any php interpreter to that folder!). Of course add expire for any files inside that, may be good for make settings for clean any cookie return. Make a good gzip optimization to that domain.

This one step will fix most low results from gmetrix (pagespeed and yslow). Second optimizations may be next steps. If you want to check primary answer speed - check you cache settings (and it's expire params). Make sure for any blocks are also cacheble. Dont' make any blocks, which get some unique params (based for session, for example) - it will create different cache for each user (not one for all) and don't make custom controllers inside that (or with some framework/database logics - try to provide all needed data without any addditions).

Its a basic. Other things are not bad as metrics said. If after that tasks you site will work slow - than you need to go deeper (check hosting/host perfomance and simple page returns - find a bottleneck first) - and work on them.

Hope it hepls )

[heydoon]

Thanks for reply mate. Will try in am and let you know how it tens out. Cheers

[heydoon]

On 13/11/2017 at 12:54 AM, Upgradeovec said:

As the gmetrix said - work with your upload folder.

Most good solution for make them better - use storage service with cdn for uploaded files and theme css/resources.

If you don't want to use other storage services or cdn you can create pseudo-storage service. For example, make a A-record, like cdn.bwgforums.com, which has an ip-address to the same server. Configure your web server for make root folder to this domain to /uploads (and not needed to create any php interpreter to that folder!). Of course add expire for any files inside that, may be good for make settings for clean any cookie return. Make a good gzip optimization to that domain.

This one step will fix most low results from gmetrix (pagespeed and yslow). Second optimizations may be next steps. If you want to check primary answer speed - check you cache settings (and it's expire params). Make sure for any blocks are also cacheble. Dont' make any blocks, which get some unique params (based for session, for example) - it will create different cache for each user (not one for all) and don't make custom controllers inside that (or with some framework/database logics - try to provide all needed data without any addditions).

Its a basic. Other things are not bad as metrics said. If after that tasks you site will work slow - than you need to go deeper (check hosting/host perfomance and simple page returns - find a bottleneck first) - and work on them.

Hope it hepls )

So that didn't seem to make IPB load any faster.

Any other suggestions?

[opentype]

Your “first byte time” gets huuuuge for most page loads of your homepage. So something is not right on your server or in your IPS installation. General tips for site speed improvement won’t help you. You need to find the cause of that unusual delay. But the cause can’t be narrowed down by just looking at the page. 

[heydoon]

On 2017-11-13 at 12:54 AM, Upgradeovec said:

As the gmetrix said - work with your upload folder.

Most good solution for make them better - use storage service with cdn for uploaded files and theme css/resources.

If you don't want to use other storage services or cdn you can create pseudo-storage service. For example, make a A-record, like cdn.bwgforums.com, which has an ip-address to the same server. Configure your web server for make root folder to this domain to /uploads (and not needed to create any php interpreter to that folder!). Of course add expire for any files inside that, may be good for make settings for clean any cookie return. Make a good gzip optimization to that domain.

This one step will fix most low results from gmetrix (pagespeed and yslow). Second optimizations may be next steps. If you want to check primary answer speed - check you cache settings (and it's expire params). Make sure for any blocks are also cacheble. Dont' make any blocks, which get some unique params (based for session, for example) - it will create different cache for each user (not one for all) and don't make custom controllers inside that (or with some framework/database logics - try to provide all needed data without any addditions).

Its a basic. Other things are not bad as metrics said. If after that tasks you site will work slow - than you need to go deeper (check hosting/host perfomance and simple page returns - find a bottleneck first) - and work on them.

Hope it hepls )

Hi there. Where do I have to set the domain for the cdn/static sub domain in IPB? It's set up I just need to change it.

[Adlago]

There is one bad request in your site, missing you favicon ico

https://www.bwgforums.com/favicon.ico

Open your theme for editing menu Logos and uploads your favicon ico.

You can use an online tool to create your own favicon ico - http://www.favicon.cc/

Your site will load even faster if you move a load javascript before closing a body tag.

This you can do if you open your theme for editing menu Custom

Find  "Javascript include location " and select "Just before </body> tag"

 

[heydoon]

2 hours ago, Adlago said:

There is one bad request in your site, missing you favicon ico

https://www.bwgforums.com/favicon.ico

Open your theme for editing menu Logos and uploads your favicon ico.

You can use an online tool to create your own favicon ico - http://www.favicon.cc/

Your site will load even faster if you move a load javascript before closing a body tag.

This you can do if you open your theme for editing menu Custom

Find  "Javascript include location " and select "Just before </body> tag"

 

Thanks for your help.

Thanks guy I've got my page speed down 2-3 seconds to around 2 second load time.