Speed up your XenForo site

[Amin Sabet]

Amin Sabet submitted a new resource:

Speed up your XenForo site - Tips for improving your XenForo board performance

I've been working pretty hard to get my XenForo forums speedy and thought I'd share some lessons learned here. This isn't meant to be comprehensive where I explain everything. More of a checklist.

Some of these are rather obvious, for example...

1) Get a good host and a powerful server. I use and recommend Hivelocity, but there are lots of good hosts. Don't skimp on RAM.

Just a side note: I had read a lot about LiteSpeed being faster than Apache, and I leased LiteSpeed...

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[agison]

Just run a pagespeed test on foreverfilm.org forum, 71 and 89/100

 

[Amin Sabet]

Just run a pagespeed test on foreverfilm.org forum, 71 and 89/100

I didn't say that I had reached the summit. Still working .

 

[rafass]

Just run a pagespeed test on foreverfilm.org forum, 71 and 89/100
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71/100 is great. looks the score of: https://developers.google.com
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https://developers.google.com


Google have 75/100
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https://google.com/

 

[Amin Sabet]

71/100 is great.

But there is always room to improve. Look at https://community.centminmod.com/:

 

[rafass]

 

[eva2000]

Nice I always love fast loading pages

FYI, You can still get fast loading pages with Xenforo Google, Facebook and Twitter sign ups enabled.. don't be so focused on the actual score number and page load times but more about sub tests and their meaning and the initial perceived visual render time of a page. For that webpagetest.org is better suited for tests as GTmetrix chrome browser is too out dated Chrome 36 doesn't support HTTP/2 either only Chrome 43+

oh and don't use unthrottled GTmetrix connection speed, use Cable 5Mbps and 3G connection speeds for more real world page load tests

 

[rafass]

eva2000, https://community.centminmod.com/ is the most speedy forum I've ever seen.
really impressive

 

[eva2000]

eva2000, https://community.centminmod.com/ is the most speedy forum I've ever seen.
really impressive

cheers.. part of it is due to style used thanks to to @Russ and then Centmin Mod LEMP stack with ngx_pagespeed. And helps to have a nice speedy server setup - 4GB Linode VPS for me

 

[Amin Sabet]

The Admin Zone (https://theadminzone.com/) feels very fast in use despite relatively low scores.

 

[Amin Sabet]

cheers.. part of it is due to style used thanks to to @Russ and then Centmin Mod LEMP stack with ngx_pagespeed. And helps to have a nice speedy server setup - 4GB Linode VPS for me

I need to work on a faster style. Have always kept it close to default.

 

[eva2000]

The Admin Zone (https://theadminzone.com/) feels very fast in use despite relatively low scores.

needs some page fat cut

on 3G with relatively closest test locations for each site

my forums are in california but closest is dallas test location



if gtmetrix used chrome 46 instead of 36, it would support HTTP/2 which would be faster for my forums and any site using https and HTTP/2

 

[rafass]

I also love speedy sites, I pay too much attention on that. (speed+performance) and I'm very interested to run my next project on CentminMod LEMP + with ngx_pagespeed. in Linode, but the learning curve seems very high.
eva2000, it would be great create a zone for beginners on https://community.centminmod.com/

 

[eva2000]

I also love speedy sites, I pay too much attention on that. (speed+performance) and I'm very interested to run my next project on CentminMod LEMP + with ngx_pagespeed. in Linode, but the learning curve seems very high.
eva2000, it would be great create a zone for beginners on https://community.centminmod.com/

Pre-install questions forums https://community.centminmod.com/forums/install-upgrades-or-pre-install-questions.8/

official install guide http://centminmod.com/download.html and post install getting started guide http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html

xenforo setup http://centminmod.com/nginx_configure_xenforo_seo_friendly_urls.html

 

[Amin Sabet]

if gtmetrix used chrome 46 instead of 36, it would support HTTP/2 which would be faster for my forums and any site using https and HTTP/2

HTTP/2 is one thing I gave up lately in changing from LiteSpeed to Apache. But they seem faster after that change. Faster time to first byte and start render times. Not sure why.

 

[eva2000]

HTTP/2 is one thing I gave up lately in changing from LiteSpeed to Apache. But they seem faster after that change. Faster time to first byte and start render times. Not sure why.

TTFB isn't everything when it comes to SPDY/HTTP/2 see https://community.centminmod.com/posts/13724/

 

[rafass]

This is another very speedy site: https://www.axivo.com/
and looks the score in gtmetrix:

 

[Amin Sabet]

TTFB isn't everything when it comes to SPDY/HTTP/2 see https://community.centminmod.com/posts/13724/

I realize http/2 is the way to go. Just happy that I can pay $50 less per month (LiteSpeed lease) and not notice any performance difference. Will be glad when Apache is http/2.

 

[Robru]

Will be glad when Apache is http/2.

Apache 2.4.17 have the http/2 mod inside.

 

[Amin Sabet]

Just run a pagespeed test on foreverfilm.org forum, 71 and 89/100

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Google have 75/100
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https://google.com/

At the moment, I'm seeing 59 and 100/100:



https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https://www.google.com/&tab=mobile