XenForo 2.1.4 is faster

[Recep Baltaş]

I just wanted to let you know that after upgrading to XF 2.1.4, our forum got a lot faster and responsive.

For those who wonder, here is our software:

• PHP 7.3.9
• MySQL 10.3.18 (10.3.18-MariaDB)
• LiteSpeed 5.4.1

 

[BassMan]

And you were upgrading from version?

 

[Recep Baltaş]

2.1.3

 

[BassMan]

Hm, not sure, I haven't noticed any significant speed improvement. But yes, it's fast.

 

[Mendalla]

Hmm. I am upgrading on the weekend so will see what happens. I did upgrade my dev to check for problems but I don't really do much there other than testing so wouldn't notice a performance change there.

 

[HotRodCarts]

My forums both had a occasional lag (3-5 seconds) when reacting to posts on 2.13. I've noticed since upgrading yesterday from 2.13 to 2.14 it hasn't happened. Not sure if it's something to do with the upgrade or not.

 

[Chris D]

I mean, we'll take it and we're happy that people hold this perception, but to be clear we're not currently expecting users to experience any significant performance improvement between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 and cannot specifically pinpoint any logical reason for a perceived performance increase.

 

[maxicep]

psychological

 

[Recep Baltaş]

psychological

As a person with 60.000 posts on his own forum, I can assure you it's not

 

[Walter]

@Recep Baltaş Maybe you have upgraded to a newer PHP version during this upgrade?

 

[Eagle]

I'm strongly of the same opinion. Yesterday I've upgraded from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 and now, I just wanted to say that is pretty awesome and genius. As a result, XenForo is amazing software that is the only one of its kind in the world. Everything is quite clear, if you know how to look at it. That's all.

 

[Kirby]

Depending on the size of the database, the MySQL/MariaDB version used, the effort put into DB optimization and the usage of widgets XF 2.1.4 can have a noticeable effect on performance:

Fixed - New Threads Widget doing too much work in expanded mode

If the display style is set to Expanded, the New Threads Widget does call relation fullForum on the thread finder which queries Last Poster Watch Status Unread Status Posted Status on the threads. This seems unnecessary as this data is not being used at all by the default template in...

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Fixed - New Threads Widget causing Slow Query

We are using the New Threads Widget to display threads from our news forum on a page. (Max Entries = 2, Expanded, Only one forum selected) This forum does not have many threads, yet the query does take way too long (over 200ms). This seems to happen as the Widget uses...

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[Recep Baltaş]

@Recep Baltaş Maybe you have upgraded to a newer PHP version during this upgrade?

Nope. It was PHP 7.3 for a long time.

Depending on the size of the database, the MySQL/MariaDB version used, the effort put into DB optimization and the usage of widgets XF 2.1.4 can have a noticeable effect on performance:

Fixed - New Threads Widget doing too much work in expanded mode

If the display style is set to Expanded, the New Threads Widget does call relation fullForum on the thread finder which queries Last Poster Watch Status Unread Status Posted Status on the threads. This seems unnecessary as this data is not being used at all by the default template in...

xenforo.com

Fixed - New Threads Widget causing Slow Query

We are using the New Threads Widget to display threads from our news forum on a page. (Max Entries = 2, Expanded, Only one forum selected) This forum does not have many threads, yet the query does take way too long (over 200ms). This seems to happen as the Widget uses...

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Yepp, that could very well be for a web site with 150K+ daily unique visitors.

 

[Masetrix]

I would also say, or feel that the forum with 2.1.4 runs more fluently.
GooglePageSpeed, however, says ~everything is the same.

 

[DarkGizmo]

I'm waiting on upgrading as I have to wait for my theme developer to update the theme I use from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4.

 

[maxicep]

Depending on the size of the database, the MySQL/MariaDB version used, the effort put into DB optimization and the usage of widgets XF 2.1.4 can have a noticeable effect on performance:

Fixed - New Threads Widget doing too much work in expanded mode

If the display style is set to Expanded, the New Threads Widget does call relation fullForum on the thread finder which queries Last Poster Watch Status Unread Status Posted Status on the threads. This seems unnecessary as this data is not being used at all by the default template in...

xenforo.com

Fixed - New Threads Widget causing Slow Query

We are using the New Threads Widget to display threads from our news forum on a page. (Max Entries = 2, Expanded, Only one forum selected) This forum does not have many threads, yet the query does take way too long (over 200ms). This seems to happen as the Widget uses...

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Yes, feeling the faster forum may depend of widgets usage. So, if you have big data and more widget, forum would be faster a bit.

 

[Mendalla]

Upgraded yesterday. Can't say I've seen a performance boost but it's a small board and uses just a few standard widgets so perhaps the fixes being cited above don't make much difference to us. I'll see if any members comment.

 

[Recep Baltaş]

After nearly two weeks, I can definitely confirm that it made difference. There are now 1600+ active users on the website and the server is runnig silky smooth.

 

[masterking]

Maybe there were some unoptimized plugins which did a lot of queries and since the upgrade they stopped working

 

[Recep Baltaş]

Maybe there were some unoptimized plugins which did a lot of queries and since the upgrade they stopped working

No, there weren't any.