[ParaZite]

I feel parazite's explanation was less than sufficient, so I'm going to try one:

If you want to load a web page really fast, make the web page (in html, javascript, images, and what have you) really small. The less data you need to send, the faster the browser will display the image.

Google, for the most part, is suggesting oni replace what's called "Absolute addressing" with "Relative addressing"

Absolute addressing:

Code:

www.sinister.ly/some-thread-name

Relative addressing:

Code:

/some-thread-name

Since your browser knows you're already on Sinister.ly, it knows there to go when you tell it
/some-thred-name
So for every link on the page that uses absolute addressing, you can save 22 characters of data you're sending over when you don't have to.

Additionally, you can use trick like taking out "new line" characters and spaces in any html or javascript you have, since the browser ignores them anyway, they just make the code a little easier to read.

I'm sure there are more tricks to reducing size that I don't know of, perhaps someone more knowledgeable could elaborate.

Certainly my thread is only a basic guide to increasing the speed of the forum. There are tons of ways to reduce your server load thus making your website faster, but I have not included every single one.

I've provided just a few rules that come from Google which indeed are helpful from my own experiences. I've provided a few because I know Oni is busy with other things on the site and don't want to overwhelm him with a huge list. Thanks for your input, my friend.

If there are any other ways you can add that will benefit the page speed of this forum I'd love for you to include as many as you can in one single posting, that way Oni can work his way down and cover them all if he chooses.