Optimization..

millzee

Hi, i've just installed a vanilla vanilla2 env on a pretty hot platform (8 core/32gb/bare metal) and added the bootstrap theme because my site uses bootstrap.

I shot straight over to gtmatrix to get a baseline before I look into optimizing vanilla coz to me its pretty much a big overkill most of the tut loading up.

My bootstrap 3 site speed grade is A (99%) and the Yslow is A 98%.

The base install of Vanilla2 however comes in as F (49%) and YSLOW is at C(74%).

Looking on the forums it seems like you advise that we write a plugin to fix stuff like cdn delivery/optimization etc.

However i'm convinced that If I modify the core to fix the underlying speed problems then I can maintain a good level of control over a)what gets called for and b)how it gets called.

Before I start hacking about can someone recommend a plugin that has in fact optimized the delivery of static data? (i did do a search and found something from 3 years ago so I suppose thats out of date now).

any advise would be good thanks.

Millzee

Bleistivt

Before I start hacking about can someone recommend a plugin that has in fact optimized the delivery of static data?

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/consolidate-plugin

millzee

@Bleistivt said:
"http://vanillaforums.org/addon/consolidate-plugin"

thanks, am always weary about

"Warning!
This community-contributed addon has not been tested or code-reviewed. Use at your own risk."

but will give it a quick try in dev.

Bleistivt

You can ignore this, the review system is not really of relevance right now.

Oh and there is also https://github.com/vanilla/addons/tree/master/plugins/Minify

Don't hack the core, upgrading will be a pain.

Have you measured the actual speed of your website?
Your users will probably not care about about the Yslow and pagespeed scores if the site feels fast

millzee

ah ok, thanks for update.

Yep i've tested my site on pingdom as well and it comes out as 956.4kB
Load time: 0.60s Requests:20 Perf. grade 9
Your website is faster than 93% of all tested websites

750.8kB Load time 2.34s Requests 19 Perf. grade 61/100
Your website is faster than 59% of all tested websites

I suspect just a little bit of optimization and Vanilla will fly.

I did test phpbb/vbulletin/mybb etc but the fact that Vanilla2 uses bootstrap and is so much easier to nav means I can share most of my static code.

also the main reason why I need to optimize vanilla (especially pull the static content from a cdn) is because my dedi also serves as one of my grid application servers so the less content that is pulled from the server the better. :-)

thanks

peregrine

try cloudflare plugin. I wouldn't use minify if it were me.

peregrine

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/28006/cloudflare-caching-and-increasing-page-load-speed

millzee

thank peregrine, I use maxcdn which uses pull technology to pull all my files automatically from a cdn folder.

All i really need to do is tell vanilla to serve all my js/img/css content from a cdn folder and not the theme's design folder/library.