Can't reduce the avg. Page Load Time (Analytics) of my Forums - Help

**Final Kaoss** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 4:13am

Replace the contents of your htaccess file with this.

Code:

# Author: Matty Asia
# Version 1.6
# Downloaded from: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325798
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Mozilla/4\.76 \[en\] \(Windows NT 5\.0; U\)"
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Options +FollowSymLinks
### THIS IS A LITTLE EXTRA SECURITY AND CAN BE REMOVED
#RewriteRule ^includes/(.*) index.php
#RewriteRule ^vb/(.*) index.php
#RewriteRule ^packages/(.*) index.php
### THIS IS THE ACTUAL REWRITE
RewriteRule ^threads/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) showthread.php?t=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^members/([0-9]+) member.php?u=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^forums/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) forumdisplay.php?f=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^blogs/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) blog.php?u=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^entries/([0-9]+)(?:/?$|(?:-[^/]+))(?:/?$|(?:/page([0-9]+)?)) entry.php?b=$1&page=$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^list/([^/]*/)([0-9]+) list.php?r=$1$2&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) content.php?r=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^widget/config/([0-9]+) widget.php?r=config/$1&%{QUERY_STRING}
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]



## Rewrites
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]


# Forum
RewriteRule ^threads/.* showthread.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/.* forumdisplay.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^members/.* member.php [QSA]
RewriteRule ^blogs/.* blog.php [QSA]
ReWriteRule ^entries/.* entry.php [QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
# MVC
RewriteRule ^(?:(.*?)(?:/|$))(.*|$)$ $1.php?r=$2 [QSA]
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
ErrorDocument 403 /404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /404.php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^site.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]







# Cache static content for 1 MONTH
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|mp3|mp4|css|js|txt|xml)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>

# Remove ETag headers
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

**M.Scheel** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 4:26am

Why would I do that?
I use vBSEO for rewriting URLs, I use DEFLATE already, ETAG is off, static content is already cached.

Where is the "magic" in your htaccess?

**Final Kaoss** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 4:30am

When we were all active yesterday trying to increase our page load speed, that's the final result I ended up with via this thread.

vBulletin Community Forum

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/382397-vbulletin-4-now-fastest-page-load-ever/page8

**Final Kaoss** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 5:10am

Have a look at this, it should help you some

WebPageTest

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110630_KZ_YQXQ/1/performance_optimization/

View this on WebPageTest.org...

**Ramsesx** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 5:20am

Hasn't been VBSEO known as a speed brake?

**M.Scheel** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 5:38am

Thanks for trying to help me but I already have done everything you suggested.
If you look closer to the result page you'll see that everything that is not optimized is
outside of my control like Google adsense javascript.

Originally posted by Ramsesx

Hasn't been VBSEO known as a speed brake?

Not as far as I know.
It is not the page generation time (php & mysql wise) it is the execution of javascript that
prolongs the loading time in Analytics. The page renders very fast in my browser but finishing all javascripts
takes time sometimes

It is that I am more interested in your Google Analytics Page Load Time

**Dirt Bike Addict** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 6:33am

Starbug, you have a total of 23 .js requests on that page, anyway you could cut down on those? Also where did you put your DFP .js?

You also have to remember that this is somewhat dependent on the users internet speed and also the page they're visiting. For example I can load most pages on my site in 3 seconds or less (have a 50mb connection), however my Site Speed is generally between 4-5 seconds.

Just went and checked mine, found something pretty interesting.

User type	Load time
USA/Canada Logged In	3.81 sec
USA/Canada Not Logged In	5.77 sec
Non USA/Canada	9.14 sec

Originally posted by scylla22

Replace the contents of your htaccess file with this.

Wow you have a lot of extra stuff (rewrites) in there that I wouldn't be telling people to put in their .htaccess. This is generally about the only thing you want to tell people to add, providing that they don't already have something similar.

Code:

# Cache static content for 1 MONTH
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|mp3|mp4|css|js|txt|xml)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>

# Remove ETag headers
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

**M.Scheel** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 6:47am

Originally posted by Dirt Bike Addict

Starbug, you have a total of 23 .js requests on that page, anyway you could cut down on those? Also where did you put your DFP .js?

DFP JS is AFTER the </header> to not slow down page rendering.
Unfortunatly I can't cut down JS requests because most of them are AdSense, and the few others besides vBulletins own JS are from my other advertising marketer.

Originally posted by Dirt Bike Addict

You also have to remember that this is somewhat dependent on the users internet speed and also the page they're visiting. For example I can load most pages on my site in 3 seconds or less (have a 50mb connection), however my Site Speed is generally between 4-5 seconds.

I noticed when I was analyzing my website with chrome dev tools that one flash Ad served via Google was re-requesting a statistic file over and over again for over 50 seconds.
This would explain why analytics sometimes shows page load time of 200+ seconds for a thread.

Originally posted by Dirt Bike Addict

Just went and checked mine, found something pretty interesting.

User type	Load time
USA/Canada Logged In	3.81 sec
USA/Canada Not Logged In	5.77 sec
Non USA/Canada	9.14 sec

Of course foreign requests take longer to be served then in country requests.
If I request a website from a server based in USA it takes longer then requesting a page from a server in Germany.

Originally posted by Dirt Bike Addict

Wow you have a lot of extra stuff (rewrites) in there that I wouldn't be telling people to put in their .htaccess. This is generally about the only thing you want to tell people to add, providing that they don't already have something similar.

Code:

# Cache static content for 1 MONTH
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|mp3|mp4|css|js|txt|xml)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public"
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>

# Remove ETag headers
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

And even that code is not optimized

Code:

Header unset Pragma
FileETag None
Header unset ETag
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE xhtml html htm php css js xml xsl txt

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"

ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
ExpiresByType text/plain A2592000
ExpiresByType text/css A2592000
ExpiresByType text/js A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2592000
ExpiresByType application/pdf A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A2592000
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|mp3|mp4|css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000, public, must-revalidate"
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public"
Header unset Last-Modified
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(xhtml|html|htm|xml|xsl|php)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=3600, public"
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

**Dirt Bike Addict** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 7:20am

Originally posted by StarBuG

DFP JS is AFTER the </header> to not slow down page rendering.
Unfortunatly I can't cut down JS requests because most of them are AdSense, and the few others besides vBulletins own JS are from my other advertising marketer.

Why not serve everything through DFP, I run Adsense and another ad network through it.

And on a side note, I actually found it faster when it was put in the headinclude.

**M.Scheel** · Thu 30 Jun '11, 7:29am

I could place their code inside DFP but that would only call their DFP (they use the Doubleclick Pro Version) which would call their ad or adsense respectively.
This would lead to two more unnecessary Javascripts.

I had DFP codes in the headinclude before but was told it would speed up page rendering when placed after </header>
Will test it more

I have a high "Time To first Byte" though which irritates me.
Its around 900-1100ms

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