XF 1.2 Improve forum home load time

[jauburn]

My forum home is loading at ~ 3 seconds, which is too slow, even on an SSD-based VPS.

I notice that xenforo's home page loads much faster.

Two questions:

What is xenforo's secret?

What might I do to improve forum home load times?

Thanks.

 

[TPerry]

My forum home is loading at ~ 3 seconds, which is too slow, even on an SSD-based VPS.

I notice that xenforo's home page loads much faster.

Two questions:

What is xenforo's secret?

What might I do to improve forum home load times?

Thanks.

# of add-ons in use
bandwidth latency
# of images display on main page
# of ads displayed on main page
Social intergration plugin latency

These ALL have a bearing on it.

 

[MattW]

It's taking 1.3 seconds just to get the initial response from the db queries before it even starts to load the js / images / css etc



I'd suggest you start by taking a look at the configurations of the webserver and database, and try and implement caching where possible.

 

[TPerry]

@jauburn - another thing is give SERIOUS consideration to going to nginx/OpenLiteSpeed/LiteSpeed instead of Apache.
Dump PHP 5.3.27 and upgrade to the 5.5 series also.

 

[jauburn]

@jauburn - another thing is give SERIOUS consideration to going to nginx/OpenLiteSpeed/LiteSpeed instead of Apache.
Dump PHP 5.3.27 and upgrade to the 5.5 series also.

I can't dump 5.3.x at the moment because I have one site that won't work on 5.4.x or higher.

I'll ask the host about nginx/OpenLiteSpeed, etc.

Is that what they use here?

 

[TPerry]

I can't dump 5.3.x at the moment because I have one site that won't work on 5.4.x or higher.

I'll ask the host about nginx/OpenLiteSpeed, etc.

Is that what they use here?

They use Apache here... but I'm pretty sure they got a LOT more horsepower behind it than what you have.

 

[Paul B]

The server used for xenforo.com is very modest.

It's just been tweaked by someone who knows what he's doing

My server has just 4GB: http://cliptheapex.com/



But it has been tweaked by the same guy

 

[TPerry]

The server used for xenforo.com is very modest.

It's just been tweaked by someone who knows what he's doing

Yes, but if I'm not mistaken he's on a VPS with ServInt.... and XenForo is running (I'm pretty sure) on dedicated iron from SoftLayer?

 

[nodle]

I have no idea what I'm doing with tweaks and everything, and mine loads pretty fast. Fluxoid

 

[jauburn]

FYI, I figured out that a low TTL value (set to 0 in some cases) in some of the sidebar blocks--part of the bd widget framework--was causing much of the home page slowness.