tenants
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I've had a go of the demo and played around
I've also seen some plugins
The forum style and layout looks great, and I really want to buy it (it looks so modern)
But I also want speed and I'm nost sure xenforo is really designed for that
I've checked pingdom tools:
http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http:...w=0&column=objectID&order=1&type=0&save=false
Compared to a myBB forum I've just optimised:
http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http:...w=0&column=objectID&order=1&type=0&save=false
(this isnt completely fair, since the optimised myBB forum doesn't have any posts) << note this is an customised myBB forum (the standard myBB forum is no where near as fast, but I'm not trying to compare this to myBB, I'm trying to demonstrate how a fast forum could be designed)
There looks like there are a lot of images that could be / should be sprited
Using a cdn newtwork (for jquery etc) is a good idea that I see you can do, but the css and some images seems to be php defined
Ideally I want to have:
1) only 1 (non cdn) js file per page (minified) >> so I would want to be able to combine and minify the js (then change the templates to refer to this)
2) 1 minified css file per page (with the current design, I'm not sure this is going to be possible, you link to css that is created on the fly by a php file.. which would be great, yet you seem to link to more than one css file per page
3) As few images on the page as possible (I can sprite what I can, so this should be possible)
A page should never need to contain more than a few [vertical repeated images all sprited as one image , horizonal repeated images all sprited as one image, single unit icons sprited + other larger non sprited images]
are all these things going to be easy to do, and would I get any support doing them
(I've done them for a stripped dowm myBB forum.. which is now really fast)
4) Some of your images are sent though php script, spriting these is going to be an additional problem, has anyone had success?
5) Additionally, there sometimes seems to be a lag with using the Editor.. when I type it gets a little unresponsive (using this community forum)
>> type something then delete it then type again (I'm using FireFox which a lot of people use)
Is there anything that can be done to avoid this << note, this one might have just been due to my sessions (I've killed my browser completly, restarted it and it seems less laggy now, but I had only noticed it after playing around with this forum)
The yslow and google speed scores are quite low (even with the performance plugins)
I'm not too fond of plugins since they often require another query, so I dont mind doing customisations (anything less than a g score of 95 and I think there is still work that should be done). Has anyone had success with fully optimising thier forum for performance
I've also seen some plugins
The forum style and layout looks great, and I really want to buy it (it looks so modern)
But I also want speed and I'm nost sure xenforo is really designed for that
I've checked pingdom tools:
http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http:...w=0&column=objectID&order=1&type=0&save=false
Compared to a myBB forum I've just optimised:
http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http:...w=0&column=objectID&order=1&type=0&save=false
(this isnt completely fair, since the optimised myBB forum doesn't have any posts) << note this is an customised myBB forum (the standard myBB forum is no where near as fast, but I'm not trying to compare this to myBB, I'm trying to demonstrate how a fast forum could be designed)
There looks like there are a lot of images that could be / should be sprited
Using a cdn newtwork (for jquery etc) is a good idea that I see you can do, but the css and some images seems to be php defined
Ideally I want to have:
1) only 1 (non cdn) js file per page (minified) >> so I would want to be able to combine and minify the js (then change the templates to refer to this)
2) 1 minified css file per page (with the current design, I'm not sure this is going to be possible, you link to css that is created on the fly by a php file.. which would be great, yet you seem to link to more than one css file per page
3) As few images on the page as possible (I can sprite what I can, so this should be possible)
A page should never need to contain more than a few [vertical repeated images all sprited as one image , horizonal repeated images all sprited as one image, single unit icons sprited + other larger non sprited images]
are all these things going to be easy to do, and would I get any support doing them
(I've done them for a stripped dowm myBB forum.. which is now really fast)
4) Some of your images are sent though php script, spriting these is going to be an additional problem, has anyone had success?
5) Additionally, there sometimes seems to be a lag with using the Editor.. when I type it gets a little unresponsive (using this community forum)
>> type something then delete it then type again (I'm using FireFox which a lot of people use)
Is there anything that can be done to avoid this << note, this one might have just been due to my sessions (I've killed my browser completly, restarted it and it seems less laggy now, but I had only noticed it after playing around with this forum)
The yslow and google speed scores are quite low (even with the performance plugins)
I'm not too fond of plugins since they often require another query, so I dont mind doing customisations (anything less than a g score of 95 and I think there is still work that should be done). Has anyone had success with fully optimising thier forum for performance