Our initial page load time is extremely slow for theforumlounge due to all of the html (about 60k of code). if someone could compress this/seperate out javascript and CSS it would allow me to spend my time on something else. Just save the source and seperate it and compress it and send it to me in a zip.

I'd get right on that, but I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. :D

hey $100, you should reset your rep

Which pages? All of them? The "home page"? Do you want actual coding with the CSS and Javascript in their own files, or do you want someone to just pull out the CSS and Javascript to leave the source?

Its been awhile since I've messed with HTML/CSS and I've never done Javascript. So if I do this, it may take a little bit of time.

basically I based this template off of another one I had and it wasn't put together well. If you just optimize one page I can change the rest of the templates accordingly. Just run one of those webpage analyzers on the site and you can see the bottlenecks. The images need to be reused where possible. Also, font tags can be merged and the whitespace can be removed to remove about 10k from the actual html code. It shouldn't be too hard but it would just be nice to have some help. I've already complained to the hosting company about SQL being slow twice today since that is what is REALLY slowing down the site right now.

hey $100, you should reset your rep

Nah... I'm the baddest muthafucka around LOL.

If you do it in a css....wouldnt the css have to be downloaded with the load of the forum home?

It really wouldn't save anytime there would it? Only one any pages you view after that.... which all of the forum related images are nearly downloaded, so it really isn't slow anyhow...

Maybe i'm wrong....



But then again... I am the king of the world.

nope big diff on the CSS. If the CSS is included in an external file that file would be downloaded and cached for every page on the forum rather than having to be downloaded for every new page you go to. It is also like a 10k difference I think.

Is it any faster for anyone? I've significantly lowered load times on images. Seems a lot faster to me.

I moved the CSS out and shrunk a bunch of images. I've noticed SIGNIFICANT speed increases and a 28.8 modem should see around a 38 second dl the first time they load the page. That is down from around a minute. Cable has gone from ~9 to 6. Still trying to get it down lower. Does anyone else notice a diff?

no.