Centmin Mod community moves from G+ Communities

[Liam W]

What site are you using for that speed test?

 

[nodle]

What site are you using for that speed test?

That's Gtmetrix.

 

[eva2000]

What site are you using for that speed test?

only 2 tools you ever need http://gtmetrix.com and http://www.webpagetest.org/

 

[rafass]

I love your board, is SUPER SPEEDY!

 

[eva2000]

Time flies but it's my forum's 2nd yr anniversary in 2 weeks ! With 30k posts and 650+ members

Still hosted on 4GB Linode but it's switched from Xen to KVM VPS instance running latest Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 LEMP stack - Nginx 1.9.15 + ngx_pagespeed, PHP 5.6.21 + MariaDB on CentOS 6.7 64bit Using @Xon XF Redis Cache addon for extra speed

Had my 1st DDOS attack recently - what fun

 

[eva2000]

Forums official 2yrs old now https://community.centminmod.com/threads/forum-year-2-anniversary.7423/

 

[eva2000]

Finally updated my forum's style from Pixelexit's FA to FA+ https://community.centminmod.com/threads/forum-new-style-flat-pixel-default.8162/

thanks @Russ @Steve F

 

[Pierce]

Hi @eva200

The push notifications are cool, and I am hoping they come to XF in 2.0 to make it a true webapp for mobile platforms.

You are using onesignal I see.

Are you feeding the ALERTS->OneSignal or are you just creating a notification in the OneSignal CP?

Thanks for taking the time to read this query!

Pierce

 

[eva2000]

Just sending pushs via control panel for centmin mod lemp stack specific security and update alerts i.e. https://community.centminmod.com/th...ate-httpoxy-vulnerability-cve-2016-5385.8042/

 

[Pierce]

Awesome, how do you find the engagement on the notifications? Does traffic surge when you send them?

 

[eva2000]

Awesome, how do you find the engagement on the notifications? Does traffic surge when you send them?

Relative to your subscriber numbers/traffic but better than email newsletters at <2% open rate. Push notifications average 12-18% click through rate.

 

[Pierce]

Relative to your subscriber numbers/traffic but better than email newsletters at <2% open rate. Push notifications average 12-18% click through rate.

Cool.

Thanks again.

I'd like to see push notifications for alerts because i do believe they will help increase engagement.

 

[eva2000]

Cool.

Thanks again.

I'd like to see push notifications for alerts because i do believe they will help increase engagement.

push notifications for me is all about alerting my Centmin Mod users to security and bug fix updates for the LEMP stack servers https://community.centminmod.com/forums/centos-redhat-oracle-linux-news.31/?prefix_id=33

 

[eva2000]

@Russ @Steve F thanks

Only concerned with Speedindex numbers as that relates to how fast the page visually renders for users. Compress image and cache static files are all 3rd party resource related due to serving Adsense banner ads etc

 

[Pierce]

push notifications for me is all about alerting my Centmin Mod users to security and bug fix updates for the LEMP stack servers https://community.centminmod.com/forums/centos-redhat-oracle-linux-news.31/?prefix_id=33

Perfect use case. Even though I do not use centminmod, I have subscribed

 

[eva2000]

Forum celebrates it 3rd birthday the other day https://community.centminmod.com/threads/forum-3-yrs-old-today.11780/

Pages got a bit heavier with external resources i.e. web browser push notification stuff etc and webpagetest's Dulles, CA test region got slower on average for all sites I test heh



Dulles, VA Linux test server is faster for SpeedIndex

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Interesting. I would agree that it is a bit buggy. You get vastly different results running the same test. I would expect linux to deliver a faster load though. I got the same for my main site, which runs around 50 add-ons and my own custom NGINX setup (not centminmod):





Add-ons really do make a difference though. Doing the same test on a new site that only runs 5 add-ons:



Linux seems much faster getting in and out of an external server.

 

[eva2000]

comes down to style elements and theme too for page speed and SpeedIndex and geographic location

i am guessing your servers are closer to US East coast ?

 

[Anthony Parsons]

East and West Coast, above.

 

[eva2000]

Next week Centmin Mod Community forum celebrates it's 4th year online with Xenforo. To celebrate I switched forums over to Cloudflare and managed to shave another 0.1-0.2s off my page load times https://community.centminmod.com/threads/centminmod-com-dns-update.14784/. For a pagespeed addict that's alot



FYI, proud to say that over the years dozens of Xenforo and other forums' web sites are now powered by my Centmin Mod LEMP stack as well

I'd like to thank Xenforo devs & staff for making Xenforo a pleasure to work with in terms of lending well to page speed optimisations - cheers @Kier @Mike @Chris D @Jake Bunce @Slavik @Ashley @Brogan

And thank @Russ @Steve F from Pixelexit.com for the awesome FlatAwesome+ style. I honestly can't see myself using anything else still after all these years !