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vBulletin 4: Speed Up Your Forums!
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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
2. Store CSS As files - more info hereFor 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
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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