Performance

[zamericanenergy]

I used this site to do a comparison of site downloads with the following results. I acknowledge that some of the results differ because of the differing content. I wish to put together a website which complies with Yahoo Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site! From this document the biggest performance hits are in the
1. number of http requests
2. number of html (non cached) images

My questions are as follows:

1. What is the deal that vb 3.6.12 appears to be more complaint with practices than vb 4.1.2?
2. What is in all that java script at 4.1.2?
3. Is all that java in the vb 4.1.2 included or did you customize your site and add it?
4. How did 3.6.12 have more CSS images?
5. Again are css images included in 3.6.12 and not in 4.1.2 or is that another customization?
6. How do I put static images in the css of 4.1.2
7. Why does 3.7.3 have fewer http requests?
8. we note that bbPress has no html images and low http requests!

I guess my biggest question is how do rip out a lot of vb 4.1.2 to get what I want which is something similar to the SDMB vb 3.7.3.

Tks david


Web Page Speed Report (vb 3.6.12)

URL:http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=247
Title:vBulletin 4.x
Styles - vBulletin.org Forum
Date:Report run on Mon Feb 14 11:34:30EST2011

Diagnosis

Global Statistics

Total HTTP Requests:45
Total Size:156644 bytes

Object Size Totals

HTML:19662
HTML Images:22152
CSS Images:9396
Total Images:31548
Javascript:93681
CSS:11753
Multimedia:0
Other:0


Web Page Speed Report (vb 4.1.2)

URL:http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...ales-Questions Title:vBulletin Pre-sales Questions
Date:Report run on Mon Feb 14 11:19:06EST2011

Diagnosis

Global Statistics

Total HTTP Requests:41
Total Size:1086673 bytes

Object Size Totals

HTML:31615
HTML Images:669637
CSS Images:0
Total Images:669637
Javascript:260234
CSS:125187
Multimedia:0
Other:0


Web Page Speed Report (SDMB vb 3.7.3)

URL:http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...isplay.php?f=7
Title:Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board
Date:Report run on Mon Feb 14 11:24:07EST2011

Diagnosis

Global Statistics

Total HTTP Requests:31
Total Size:191511 bytes

Object Size Totals

HTML:40606
HTML Images:27569
CSS Images:0
Total Images:27569
Javascript:121602
CSS:1734
Multimedia:0
Other:0

Web Page Speed Report (bbPress)

URL:http://bbpress.org/forums/
Title:bbPress Support Forums
Date:Report run on Mon Feb 14 11:17:41EST2011

Diagnosis

Global Statistics

Total HTTP Requests:26
Total Size:180496 bytes

Object Size Totals

HTML:33678
HTML Images:0
CSS Images:44140
Total Images:44140
Javascript:72194
CSS:30484
Multimedia:0
Other:0

[Andy]

I guess my biggest question is how do rip out a lot of vb 4.1.2 to get what I want which is something similar to the SDMB vb 3.7.3.

I've made my vBulletin 4 look like vBulletin 3.7.3. It took a lot of work but makes upgrading very time consuming.

[zamericanenergy]

Thanks Andy

why did you upgrade to 4 and then hand code a down grade of UI to 3.73?

Are you saying that I can't get 4.1.2 UI to look like 3.73 just thru the ACP or through an off the shelf template?

Did vb 3.7.3 natively look like that 3.7.3 website above?

Are you saying that to strip things out I have to hand edit the files but to add things I can use the product system?

david

[Andy]

why did you upgrade to 4 and then hand code a down grade of UI to 3.73?

To be more accurate, my forum now looks like a 3 when viewing things like the forumhome. I wanted to upgrade to 4 because many of the changes are desirable.

Are you saying that I can't get 4.1.2 UI to look like 3.73 just thru the ACP or through an off the shelf template?

That is correct. For example the navbar on 3.73 is much easier to use and modify than the clunky messy navbar tabs on 4. So I wrote my own navbar using simple tables.

Are you saying that to strip things out I have to hand edit the files but to add things I can use the product system?

The edits I made were all done to the templates.