Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
Meta - Forums About Forums
Meta
A suggestion to whomever pays the bills here..
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Bozidar" data-source="post: 1108749" data-attributes="member: 12946"><p>First let me preface by saying that i'm a web developer. I work in ASP, and i understand that php (which vBulliten is obviously written in) is similar. </p><p></p><p>Second, let me say that a friend of mine runs a vBulletin site. He doesn't have a sponsored membership the way this site does, but he runs his ads, and asks people to click on them to help support the site. But costs are high for him. With the amount of traffic he gets, performance can be a real problem sometimes. With that in mind I'll get to my point.. </p><p></p><p>When you're on any of the forums, you have a title for each of the threads there -- or most of them. Each of those titles varies in size, but i'm sure there's a maximum. But the bottom line is that a whole lot of data is being sent down, just for the mouse-over to show the first couple of sentences of each thread. I did a little self-test on it, and the source of the forum that i checked was 97K. When i cut out all those titles, along with some of the extraneous "'s and empty tags, the inline CSS which could be put in a reference file.. it reduced it 17K to 80K. It's about an 18% reduction in size of that download.</p><p></p><p>Even limiting the number of threads per page would help keep down traffic some, and keep costs down.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, it's none of my business <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> I'm not a contributing member yet, but when i saw the mouseover bring up the title, i realized that a ton of extra and mostly unused data was being traffic'd around, and the computer nerd/programmer in me had to bring it up <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Take care</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bozidar, post: 1108749, member: 12946"] First let me preface by saying that i'm a web developer. I work in ASP, and i understand that php (which vBulliten is obviously written in) is similar. Second, let me say that a friend of mine runs a vBulletin site. He doesn't have a sponsored membership the way this site does, but he runs his ads, and asks people to click on them to help support the site. But costs are high for him. With the amount of traffic he gets, performance can be a real problem sometimes. With that in mind I'll get to my point.. When you're on any of the forums, you have a title for each of the threads there -- or most of them. Each of those titles varies in size, but i'm sure there's a maximum. But the bottom line is that a whole lot of data is being sent down, just for the mouse-over to show the first couple of sentences of each thread. I did a little self-test on it, and the source of the forum that i checked was 97K. When i cut out all those titles, along with some of the extraneous "'s and empty tags, the inline CSS which could be put in a reference file.. it reduced it 17K to 80K. It's about an 18% reduction in size of that download. Even limiting the number of threads per page would help keep down traffic some, and keep costs down. Anyway, it's none of my business :) I'm not a contributing member yet, but when i saw the mouseover bring up the title, i realized that a ton of extra and mostly unused data was being traffic'd around, and the computer nerd/programmer in me had to bring it up :D Take care [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
Meta - Forums About Forums
Meta
A suggestion to whomever pays the bills here..
Top