XF 2.2 Images on the site or forum

[Ricsca]

I use various images uploaded to a folder on the site and not uploaded via the forum.
Is there a performance difference?
Thanks

 

[Jeremy P]

Any files you upload to your server are served by your web server, which is almost certainly faster than attachments as those must go through XF/PHP.

If you mean using the asset uploader in the control panel, those are also served directly by your web server so there will be no discernible difference.

 

[Ricsca]

I'm not referring to the loading speed, but rather the fact that images uploaded to the forum (attachments) aren't indexed by Google because they don't have a path like images.
I imported a very large forum that was in phpbb2 and bbpress, so now all the images are between the

[img]...[/img]

tags. I thought about converting them to attachments, but if I convert them, I'll lose all image indexing on Google because Google no longer reads them as images.