Avoid landing page redirects

[Sheffielder]

I'm assuming that some of you guys will have your forum on a subdomain (e.g. www.yoursite.com/forums)

If so how to you avoid the Avoid landing page redirects warning given on speedtests?

[opentype]

How do you do the redirect? There are different methods, which take more or less time. 

But it should be clear that if you test a site that generates a redirect, there is nothing to “work around” that redirect. 

[Sheffielder]

Yeah I'm thinking this is something I'm not going to be able to improve

I've got it set at the domain registrar firstly

I'm on https and have the forums in a www.website.com/forums 

I have the following on GMetrix..

Avoid landing page redirects for the following chain of redirected URLs.

• http://www.forum.co.uk/
• http://www.forum.co.uk/forums/
• https://www.forum.co.uk/forums/

[Sheffielder]

• http://www.forum.co.uk/ redirects to http://www.forum.co.uk/forums/
• http://www.forum.co.uk/forums/ redirects to https://www.forum.co.uk/forums/

[opentype]

40 minutes ago, Sheffielder said:

• http://www.forum.co.uk/
• http://www.forum.co.uk/forums/
• https://www.forum.co.uk/forums/

The extra step in the middle is certainly pointless and should be avoided. 

[bfarber]

If you have a redirect set up, then you can't avoid it as mentioned.

You could run Pages out of your root directory and run the forums out of a virtual /forums/ directory (this would all sort of happen out of the box) if you got rid of the redirect. This would probably be the most ideal long-term solution, but making these changes will result in some redirects for existing pages in the short term.

[Sheffielder]

Thanks everyone

I think I'm going to leave 'as is' just in case it messes anything up