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15-08-2008, 01:58 AM
vBulletin SEO Optimization Tips
Optimizing vBulletin for SEO and Server load will help your overall performance.
Here are a few tips I've found.
1. Store CSS StyleSheets as Files
By default, vBulletin will store the CSS of your pages as HTML within the head of the document. This, when taken over thousands of pages, can be quite a heavy burden.
Storing CSS Stylesheets as files will allow users/spiders to cache the CSS as a file, and make each page smaller, HTML wise, giving your server a bit of a breather.
To begin, ensure your forums/clientscript/vbulletin_css directory is chmod 777 so the stylesheet files can be created.
Next, in the AdminCP, select the vBulletin Options menu then vBulletin Options.
Select Style and Language Options.
Set "Store CSS Stylesheets as Files?" to Yes.
Click Submit.
2. Gzip those pesky pages!
Many hosts these days come with gzip as standard, meaning if you enable it within vBulletin you can actually slow pages down.
If your host has gzip installed, follow these instructions:
Go to the AdminCP, expand the vBulletin Options menu and select vBulletin Options.
Select Cookies and HTTP Header Options.
Set "GZIP HTML Output" to No, set "GZIP Compression Level" to 0 and click Submit.
If your host does not have gzip installed, choose Yes and 1 for the above.
3. Restrict Search Engine Crawling
Those spiders..they index your content, but there are always places that you don't want or need them to go.
To restrict the pesky critters to only eating up your Content, do the following.
In your root (public_html) directory, upload the following robots.txt::
Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/ajax.php
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/global.php
Disallow: /forums/image.php
Disallow: /forums/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/member.php
Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usernote.php
Remove any lines that you WANT the spiders to see.. if you want them to crawl the Calendar, take out Disallow: /forums/calendar.php.
4. Move Attachments to the File System
Stock vBulletin Attachments are stored in the Database. Large attachments or frequent viewing of them can cause a strain.
To move them to the File System, create an attachments directory above your public_html (at the same level as it.. /root/username/public_html | root/username/attachments) and CHMod it 777.
By placing it at this level, we prevent anyone from being able to access the attachments directly (ie: not through vBulletin).
Next, go to the AdminCP and expand the Attachments menu.
Click on Attachment Storage Type.
Move your attachments out of the database and into the file system.
Attachment Path: /home/*username*/attachments
5. Move Avatars and Profile Pics to the File System
As with the Attachments above, but the Avatars are on every post, so cause a burden to the server whenever a post is viewed.
To move them to the filesystem, chmod your forums/customavatars and forums/customprofilepics directories to 777.
Go to the AdminCP and expand the Avatars menu.
Click User Picture Storage Type.
Choose to Move Avatars and Profile Pics to the File System.
Avatar Path: /home/*username*/public_html/forums/customavatars
Avatar URL: /forums/customavatars
Profile Pic Path: /home/*username*/public_html/forums/customprofilepics
Profile Pic URL: /forums/customprofilepics
6. Increase Cached Posts Lifespan
Posts can be "cached", meaning the server doesn't have to pull them from the database every time they are viewed.
To enable Post Caching, do the following:
Go to the AdminCP, expand the vBulletin Options menu and select vBulletin Options.
Select Server Settings and Optimization Options in the drop down menu.
Set "Cached Posts Lifespan" to 90.
Click Submit.
If you have very little spare space, drop it to 30.
7. Disable Search and Who's Online for Guests
Why should guests (which are often mainly Spiders) see your Who's Online and Search? Do the following to stop them and reduce the load.
Go to your AdminCP.
Expand the Usergroups menu.
Select Usergroup Manager.
Select Unregistered / Not Logged In.
Set both "Can Search Forums" and "Can View Who's Online" to No.
Click Submit.
8. Turn on fulltext searching
Go to your AdminCP and expand the vBulletin Options menu
Select Search Type.
Set "Empty postindex and word tables?" to Yes.
Click Submit.
9. vBulletin.org Optimisation Mods
The following link willl provide the various Modifications that have been written by the Community at vB.org:
vB3.5 Add-ons - vBulletin.org Forum (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=113&threadprefix=Board+Optimization)
[Source.... (http://www.vbenhanced.com/forums/hints-tips/76-vbulletin-optimisation-tips.html#post222)] thx to Kall @ vbenhanced.com
Last edited by Brandon; 02-16-2008 at 10:34 PM.
Tips in vBoptions to better SEO your site
these are some tweaks that I'll always do,, you can try them and see if they work for your topics..
all these are in vBoptions.. thats in your admin control panel
Store CSS Stylesheets as Files? > yes
Message Posting and Editing Options > Automatically Quote Post / Thread Title > yes
Message Searching Options > Automatic Similar Thread Search > yes
Forum Listings Display Options > Show Forum Descriptions in Forum Listings > yes
Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) > Enable Forum Description > yes
(( I don't use this on vbseo sites, it has its own dynamic feature like this ))
External Data Provider > Enable External Javascript > yes
External Data Provider > Enable RSS Syndication > yes
External Data Provider > Enable XML Syndication > yes
Hope this helps some people better understand what goodies the vBoptions has in it http://www.atyafonline.com/vb/imgcache/879.png
Here are some tips I seen Brent post on AF, and asked him if it was cool that I reposted it here.. Hope it helps some people out http://www.atyafonline.com/vb/imgcache/879.png
This article will only touch on things you can do to the vBulletin software in order to reduce the server load on your server without sacrificing some of the features you love about vBulletin. Please note this is just my personal preference on how I have my vBulletin software configured.
Site in question: Mustang Evolution (http://www.mustangevolution.com/)
vBulletin Version: 3.6 Beta 3
First let me show how I have some of the default settings:
vBulletin Options -> Search Type (Drop Down Under vBulletin Options): If you have MySQL 4.0.x you can use this option to greatly reduce server load when a search query is used on your server.
vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Use Forum Jump Menu: I have this setting turned off. If you have a large forum this will cause the server to work harder as it was to Generate the Forum Jump and then display it on the page. The Forum Jump consists of alot of html which makes the page larger which increases bandwidth usage and finally increases the code to content ratio (Search Engines may or may not take Code To Content ration into consideration when ranking a page. They do like smaller pages however). 95% of the users will not even realize it is gone. Atleast this is the case on my site.
vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Disable AJAX Features: Make sure that this is set to allow all AJAX Features. Ajax helps reduce server load by not reloading a page where AJAX is used. (Quick Reply for instance)
vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> GZIP HTML Output: I have this turned off because my server handles this through my httpd.conf file via mod_deflate. If you are not sure whether or not you have this enabled on your server you may test it using this website: GZIP Test (http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php) It will tell you if you have it enabled or not and if you do it will show you how much the page was compressed. My main page: Mustang Web Site (http://www.mustangevolution.com/) uncompressed is 31,460 bytes and compressed 8,774 bytes. Make sure the Compression Level is never set higher than 1.
vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> Remove Redirection Message Pages: I have this set to Yes. Not only do I find them incredibly annoying but they cause an unneeded page load.
vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> Add No-Cache HTTP Headers: Make sure this is set to No.
vBulletin Options -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Cached Posts Lifespan: I have this set to 10 days. Once you turn this on I recommend rebuilding your Cache Posts via Maintenance -> Update Counters
vBulletin Options -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Update Thread Views Immediately: Set this to No. With this set at No the Thread Views will automatically update via Cron every 1 hour by default. If you wish to change this you can do so by editing the Scheduled Task for Thread Views to a different time. Mine is set to update thread views every 15 minutes.
vBulletin Options -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Update Attachment Views Immediately: I have this set to No as well. I just use the default cron to update these.
vBulletin Options -> Style & Language Settings -> Store CSS Stylesheets as Files?: Set this to yes. Make sure that you change the permission of the /clientscript/vbulletin_css/ folder to 777. This greatly reduces the page size and the code to content ration as well as not requiring the web server to spit out all that code on every page load.
vBulletin Options -> User Listing & Profile Viewing -> Show Last Post on Profile Page: This is very server intensive. Set this to No.
vBulletin Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options -> Quick Reply: Not only does this make posting faster which leads to more posts being made this also uses ajax which means you do not have to load another page to make a post. I use this hack: Smilies in QR and QE (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99532) To even further reduce the need to click the Post Newreply Button. I have Quick Reply set to: Yes, Click Not Required.
vBulletin Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options -> Quick Edit: Turn this on to reduce the need for a new page reload when someone simply wants to edit a post.
vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Minimum Time Between Searches: I have mine set to 5. I recommend setting some kind of small time limit to reduce any chance of abuse or attempt to use the search engine to bring your site to a crawl.
* vBulletin Options -> Forums Home Page Options -> Display Logged in Users?: I have mine set to Yes, Alphabetical listing to members only. What this does is show your members Alphabetically if you are logged in and random if logged out. This helps reduce server load by limiting the amount of people that use the Alphabetical sort since it causes additional server power to performn this sort.
* vBulletin Options -> Forum Display Options -> Show Users Browsing Forums: I have this option set to Yes, Random Listing to all visitors I do not care how they are sorted on Forum Display.
vBulletin Options -> Forum Display Options -> Maximum Displayed Threads Before Page Split: I have this set to 20. I would not go much higher than this. The higher you go the more resources it takes to generate those extra threads to show and the bigger your page gets. Note: Changing this will change the amount of Forumdisplay pages that are generate overall which will result in a reindex by search engines.
* vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Show Users Browsing Threads: I have this set to Yes, Random Listing to all visitors for the same reason I gave for Forumdisplay pages.
vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Check Thread Rating: I have this set to no. Thread Ratings are rarely used on my forum so I don't need it to tell the user whether or not they have rated the thread and what their rating was.
* vB_Datastore_Filecache: You may use the file system to cache your Datastore and improve performance. To do this Open your config.php file in your includes folder and find:
PHP Code:
// $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';
and simply remove the two
PHP Code:
//
before
PHP Code:
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';
to enable Filesystem caching of your datastore. Make sure that you have /includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php set to 777 so that it may write to the file.
That is all the Default Options in vBulletin that I recommend looking into. Feel free to ask questions if you need further explanation on any of them.
Now let us look at some hacks that I find useful in reducing the server load and increasing site speed:
Plugin Based Template Hack (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=113002): This is a GREAT hack that I have been using for sometime now. I have not run into any issues with this hack. This hack is even further complimented with APC caching.
Microstats - load times, server loads, queries, uncached templates (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=82900): This hack does nothing to improve performance but it offers an excellent way to determine your server load times, server load and any uncached templates you have.
Additional Information:
Last update: June 25, 2006, 2:52AM CST
This article will be updated as new information becomes available. Keep checking back for updates.
This article may not be redistributed without consent of me.
Anything marked with * is a vBulletin 3.6 Specific Feature.
Disclaimer: I can not be held responsible for any damages caused by you making changes suggested within this thread. While there is very little chance that these settings can effect your board in a negative way I can not guarentee that they will behave on your forum the same way they have mine.
Last edited by Brandon; 06-09-2008 at 07:06 AM.
http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f7/vbulletin-seo-optimization-tips-2.html
Optimizing vBulletin for SEO and Server load will help your overall performance.
Here are a few tips I've found.
1. Store CSS StyleSheets as Files
By default, vBulletin will store the CSS of your pages as HTML within the head of the document. This, when taken over thousands of pages, can be quite a heavy burden.
Storing CSS Stylesheets as files will allow users/spiders to cache the CSS as a file, and make each page smaller, HTML wise, giving your server a bit of a breather.
To begin, ensure your forums/clientscript/vbulletin_css directory is chmod 777 so the stylesheet files can be created.
Next, in the AdminCP, select the vBulletin Options menu then vBulletin Options.
Select Style and Language Options.
Set "Store CSS Stylesheets as Files?" to Yes.
Click Submit.
2. Gzip those pesky pages!
Many hosts these days come with gzip as standard, meaning if you enable it within vBulletin you can actually slow pages down.
If your host has gzip installed, follow these instructions:
Go to the AdminCP, expand the vBulletin Options menu and select vBulletin Options.
Select Cookies and HTTP Header Options.
Set "GZIP HTML Output" to No, set "GZIP Compression Level" to 0 and click Submit.
If your host does not have gzip installed, choose Yes and 1 for the above.
3. Restrict Search Engine Crawling
Those spiders..they index your content, but there are always places that you don't want or need them to go.
To restrict the pesky critters to only eating up your Content, do the following.
In your root (public_html) directory, upload the following robots.txt::
Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/ajax.php
Disallow: /forums/attachment.php
Disallow: /forums/calendar.php
Disallow: /forums/cron.php
Disallow: /forums/editpost.php
Disallow: /forums/global.php
Disallow: /forums/image.php
Disallow: /forums/inlinemod.php
Disallow: /forums/joinrequests.php
Disallow: /forums/login.php
Disallow: /forums/member.php
Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php
Disallow: /forums/misc.php
Disallow: /forums/moderator.php
Disallow: /forums/newattachment.php
Disallow: /forums/newreply.php
Disallow: /forums/newthread.php
Disallow: /forums/online.php
Disallow: /forums/poll.php
Disallow: /forums/postings.php
Disallow: /forums/printthread.php
Disallow: /forums/private.php
Disallow: /forums/profile.php
Disallow: /forums/register.php
Disallow: /forums/report.php
Disallow: /forums/reputation.php
Disallow: /forums/search.php
Disallow: /forums/sendmessage.php
Disallow: /forums/showgroups.php
Disallow: /forums/subscription.php
Disallow: /forums/threadrate.php
Disallow: /forums/usercp.php
Disallow: /forums/usernote.php
Remove any lines that you WANT the spiders to see.. if you want them to crawl the Calendar, take out Disallow: /forums/calendar.php.
4. Move Attachments to the File System
Stock vBulletin Attachments are stored in the Database. Large attachments or frequent viewing of them can cause a strain.
To move them to the File System, create an attachments directory above your public_html (at the same level as it.. /root/username/public_html | root/username/attachments) and CHMod it 777.
By placing it at this level, we prevent anyone from being able to access the attachments directly (ie: not through vBulletin).
Next, go to the AdminCP and expand the Attachments menu.
Click on Attachment Storage Type.
Move your attachments out of the database and into the file system.
Attachment Path: /home/*username*/attachments
5. Move Avatars and Profile Pics to the File System
As with the Attachments above, but the Avatars are on every post, so cause a burden to the server whenever a post is viewed.
To move them to the filesystem, chmod your forums/customavatars and forums/customprofilepics directories to 777.
Go to the AdminCP and expand the Avatars menu.
Click User Picture Storage Type.
Choose to Move Avatars and Profile Pics to the File System.
Avatar Path: /home/*username*/public_html/forums/customavatars
Avatar URL: /forums/customavatars
Profile Pic Path: /home/*username*/public_html/forums/customprofilepics
Profile Pic URL: /forums/customprofilepics
6. Increase Cached Posts Lifespan
Posts can be "cached", meaning the server doesn't have to pull them from the database every time they are viewed.
To enable Post Caching, do the following:
Go to the AdminCP, expand the vBulletin Options menu and select vBulletin Options.
Select Server Settings and Optimization Options in the drop down menu.
Set "Cached Posts Lifespan" to 90.
Click Submit.
If you have very little spare space, drop it to 30.
7. Disable Search and Who's Online for Guests
Why should guests (which are often mainly Spiders) see your Who's Online and Search? Do the following to stop them and reduce the load.
Go to your AdminCP.
Expand the Usergroups menu.
Select Usergroup Manager.
Select Unregistered / Not Logged In.
Set both "Can Search Forums" and "Can View Who's Online" to No.
Click Submit.
8. Turn on fulltext searching
Go to your AdminCP and expand the vBulletin Options menu
Select Search Type.
Set "Empty postindex and word tables?" to Yes.
Click Submit.
9. vBulletin.org Optimisation Mods
The following link willl provide the various Modifications that have been written by the Community at vB.org:
vB3.5 Add-ons - vBulletin.org Forum (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=113&threadprefix=Board+Optimization)
[Source.... (http://www.vbenhanced.com/forums/hints-tips/76-vbulletin-optimisation-tips.html#post222)] thx to Kall @ vbenhanced.com
Last edited by Brandon; 02-16-2008 at 10:34 PM.
Tips in vBoptions to better SEO your site
these are some tweaks that I'll always do,, you can try them and see if they work for your topics..
all these are in vBoptions.. thats in your admin control panel
Store CSS Stylesheets as Files? > yes
Message Posting and Editing Options > Automatically Quote Post / Thread Title > yes
Message Searching Options > Automatic Similar Thread Search > yes
Forum Listings Display Options > Show Forum Descriptions in Forum Listings > yes
Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) > Enable Forum Description > yes
(( I don't use this on vbseo sites, it has its own dynamic feature like this ))
External Data Provider > Enable External Javascript > yes
External Data Provider > Enable RSS Syndication > yes
External Data Provider > Enable XML Syndication > yes
Hope this helps some people better understand what goodies the vBoptions has in it http://www.atyafonline.com/vb/imgcache/879.png
Here are some tips I seen Brent post on AF, and asked him if it was cool that I reposted it here.. Hope it helps some people out http://www.atyafonline.com/vb/imgcache/879.png
This article will only touch on things you can do to the vBulletin software in order to reduce the server load on your server without sacrificing some of the features you love about vBulletin. Please note this is just my personal preference on how I have my vBulletin software configured.
Site in question: Mustang Evolution (http://www.mustangevolution.com/)
vBulletin Version: 3.6 Beta 3
First let me show how I have some of the default settings:
vBulletin Options -> Search Type (Drop Down Under vBulletin Options): If you have MySQL 4.0.x you can use this option to greatly reduce server load when a search query is used on your server.
vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Use Forum Jump Menu: I have this setting turned off. If you have a large forum this will cause the server to work harder as it was to Generate the Forum Jump and then display it on the page. The Forum Jump consists of alot of html which makes the page larger which increases bandwidth usage and finally increases the code to content ratio (Search Engines may or may not take Code To Content ration into consideration when ranking a page. They do like smaller pages however). 95% of the users will not even realize it is gone. Atleast this is the case on my site.
vBulletin Options -> General Settings -> Disable AJAX Features: Make sure that this is set to allow all AJAX Features. Ajax helps reduce server load by not reloading a page where AJAX is used. (Quick Reply for instance)
vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> GZIP HTML Output: I have this turned off because my server handles this through my httpd.conf file via mod_deflate. If you are not sure whether or not you have this enabled on your server you may test it using this website: GZIP Test (http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php) It will tell you if you have it enabled or not and if you do it will show you how much the page was compressed. My main page: Mustang Web Site (http://www.mustangevolution.com/) uncompressed is 31,460 bytes and compressed 8,774 bytes. Make sure the Compression Level is never set higher than 1.
vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> Remove Redirection Message Pages: I have this set to Yes. Not only do I find them incredibly annoying but they cause an unneeded page load.
vBulletin Options -> Cookies and HTTP Header Options -> Add No-Cache HTTP Headers: Make sure this is set to No.
vBulletin Options -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Cached Posts Lifespan: I have this set to 10 days. Once you turn this on I recommend rebuilding your Cache Posts via Maintenance -> Update Counters
vBulletin Options -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Update Thread Views Immediately: Set this to No. With this set at No the Thread Views will automatically update via Cron every 1 hour by default. If you wish to change this you can do so by editing the Scheduled Task for Thread Views to a different time. Mine is set to update thread views every 15 minutes.
vBulletin Options -> Server Settings and Optimization Options -> Update Attachment Views Immediately: I have this set to No as well. I just use the default cron to update these.
vBulletin Options -> Style & Language Settings -> Store CSS Stylesheets as Files?: Set this to yes. Make sure that you change the permission of the /clientscript/vbulletin_css/ folder to 777. This greatly reduces the page size and the code to content ration as well as not requiring the web server to spit out all that code on every page load.
vBulletin Options -> User Listing & Profile Viewing -> Show Last Post on Profile Page: This is very server intensive. Set this to No.
vBulletin Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options -> Quick Reply: Not only does this make posting faster which leads to more posts being made this also uses ajax which means you do not have to load another page to make a post. I use this hack: Smilies in QR and QE (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99532) To even further reduce the need to click the Post Newreply Button. I have Quick Reply set to: Yes, Click Not Required.
vBulletin Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options -> Quick Edit: Turn this on to reduce the need for a new page reload when someone simply wants to edit a post.
vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Minimum Time Between Searches: I have mine set to 5. I recommend setting some kind of small time limit to reduce any chance of abuse or attempt to use the search engine to bring your site to a crawl.
* vBulletin Options -> Forums Home Page Options -> Display Logged in Users?: I have mine set to Yes, Alphabetical listing to members only. What this does is show your members Alphabetically if you are logged in and random if logged out. This helps reduce server load by limiting the amount of people that use the Alphabetical sort since it causes additional server power to performn this sort.
* vBulletin Options -> Forum Display Options -> Show Users Browsing Forums: I have this option set to Yes, Random Listing to all visitors I do not care how they are sorted on Forum Display.
vBulletin Options -> Forum Display Options -> Maximum Displayed Threads Before Page Split: I have this set to 20. I would not go much higher than this. The higher you go the more resources it takes to generate those extra threads to show and the bigger your page gets. Note: Changing this will change the amount of Forumdisplay pages that are generate overall which will result in a reindex by search engines.
* vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Show Users Browsing Threads: I have this set to Yes, Random Listing to all visitors for the same reason I gave for Forumdisplay pages.
vBulletin Options -> Thread Display Options -> Check Thread Rating: I have this set to no. Thread Ratings are rarely used on my forum so I don't need it to tell the user whether or not they have rated the thread and what their rating was.
* vB_Datastore_Filecache: You may use the file system to cache your Datastore and improve performance. To do this Open your config.php file in your includes folder and find:
PHP Code:
// $config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';
and simply remove the two
PHP Code:
//
before
PHP Code:
$config['Datastore']['class'] = 'vB_Datastore_Filecache';
to enable Filesystem caching of your datastore. Make sure that you have /includes/datastore/datastore_cache.php set to 777 so that it may write to the file.
That is all the Default Options in vBulletin that I recommend looking into. Feel free to ask questions if you need further explanation on any of them.
Now let us look at some hacks that I find useful in reducing the server load and increasing site speed:
Plugin Based Template Hack (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=113002): This is a GREAT hack that I have been using for sometime now. I have not run into any issues with this hack. This hack is even further complimented with APC caching.
Microstats - load times, server loads, queries, uncached templates (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=82900): This hack does nothing to improve performance but it offers an excellent way to determine your server load times, server load and any uncached templates you have.
Additional Information:
Last update: June 25, 2006, 2:52AM CST
This article will be updated as new information becomes available. Keep checking back for updates.
This article may not be redistributed without consent of me.
Anything marked with * is a vBulletin 3.6 Specific Feature.
Disclaimer: I can not be held responsible for any damages caused by you making changes suggested within this thread. While there is very little chance that these settings can effect your board in a negative way I can not guarentee that they will behave on your forum the same way they have mine.
Last edited by Brandon; 06-09-2008 at 07:06 AM.
http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f7/vbulletin-seo-optimization-tips-2.html