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Javascript, CSS, slow page loads
I find that when visiting my vanilla forum for the first time in a session, the page load experience is rather slow.
This is because the browser first needs to download 4 seperate CSS and 5 seperate .JS files before it can render the page.
Major browsers, by default, will open only 2 simultaneous HTTP connections to the server. So it must download these 9 resources 2 at a time. It takes a while.
In my websites that are CSS and JS heavy, I have bundled them into single, highly compressed files, that have an HTTP Expires header tacked onto them to encourage caching.
It has resulted in an enormous speed increase; I'm really happy with the results. I think at some point Vanilla should consider doing something similar.
You can learn more here:
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast
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