vBulletin 4: Speed Up Your Forums!

[ChopSuey]

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vBulletin 4: Speed Up Your Forums!

Hopefully this article will help your slow vBulletin 4 forum speed up a bit.

1. First of all, here are some admincp settings you can set, credit to eva2000

For vB 4.x try to DISABLE = set to NO these options

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Use Quick Navigation Menu

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Thread/Forum Read Marking Type - Database automatic forum marking is very processor intensive compared to Inactivity/Cookie based or Database no automatic forum marking, so if your mysql process is constantly pegged at 100+ % cpu usage, you don't want to be using automatic forum marking Database type.

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Forums Home Page Options -> Display Logged in Users?

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Home Page Options -> Display Today's Birthdays?

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Home Page Options -> Display Calendar Events?

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) -> Show Users Browsing Forums

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Show Users Browsing Thread

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Check Thread Rating

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Check Thread Subscription (disable to check if it's load related if not re-enable it)

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Full Next / Prev Links

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Automatic Similar Thread search

Try to ENABLE = set to YES these options

AdminCP -> vBulletin Options > Cookies and HTTP Header options -. Enable GZip HTML Output - Set to 1 for optimum results.

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Queue Search Updates

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Search Result Sharing

2. Store CSS As files - more info here

A complex CSS stylesheet can occupy quite a block of text when printed out in full. This entire block of CSS code must be included with every page viewed by your visitors, and with a lot of visitors over a long period of time this can mount up.

One of the beauties of CSS is that the stylesheet can be held in a separate file from the HTML content, allowing web browsers to store the CSS in their cache, negating the need to reload the stylesheet with every...

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[PoetJC]

Great stuff Corey - Thanks for the share

Jacquii.

 

[LeadCrow]

Add digitalpoint's tips. Seems the performance and load improvements are lifechanging. I'll stand surprised they're not been incorporated into the codebase, especially as a number seem to fix big annoyances or issues, including the major CMS query/slowness issues.

http://articles.digitalpoint.com/content.php?r=7-Optimize-vBulletin-4

 

[ChopSuey]

I guess its too late to add since i can't edit it. I forgot to put that in.

 

[WireNine]

Good tips! I think this would also reduce the stress on the server.

 

[ChopSuey]

http://www.fractalizer.ru/frpost_429/fractalizer-vbulletin-4-extensive-optimization-guide/

MORE Optimizations! I recommend installing OptiPNG I've implemented some of them on vBDiscussions.

 

[davert]

The cacheing trick is very useful in itself. It really slashes second-visit page load time and makes the site seem much quicker.

 

[daPrime]

Really usefull..I'll try it someday

 

[AdamD]

http://www.fractalizer.ru/frpost_429/fractalizer-vbulletin-4-extensive-optimization-guide/

MORE Optimizations! I recommend installing OptiPNG I've implemented some of them on vBDiscussions.

Hmm interesting.
I might try that