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The speed for Sinisterly is pretty good, but let's make it above outstanding. I ran a speed test with Google and they recommended just a few things that the owner could do to increase the overall page speed. Here they are, I'm going to break em' down and hope that the owner here takes a look and suggests taking the time to boost the speed for everyone here. It can always get better right?

Minify the JavaScript
The following files should be compressed.

Code:

https://www.sinister.ly/jscripts/prototype.js?ver=1603 https://www.sinister.ly/jscripts/general.js?ver=1603 https://www.sinister.ly/mobiquo/smartbanner/appbanner.js http://www.sinister.ly/images/e-red/customjs/fixedmenu.js http://www.sinister.ly/images/e-red/customjs/popup_menu.js

/prototype.js?ver=1603 could save 50.5KiB if compressed.
/general.js?ver=1603 could save 4KiB if compressed.
/appbanner.js could save 3.8KiB if compressed.
/fixedmenu.js could save 1.1KiB
/popup_menu.js could save 991B

Optimize Images
The following forum image can save 20.1KiB (a 37% reduction).

Code:

https://www.sinister.ly/images/e-red/body_bg.png

Minify HTML
Compacting HTML code, including any inline JavaScript and CSS contained in it, can save many bytes of data and speed up download and parse times.
Minify HTML for the following resources to reduce their size by 13.5KiB (15% reduction).

Code:

http://www.sinister.ly/

Minify CSS
Minifying CSS could drastically speed up your forum if you have tons of CSS files that need to be compressed, fortunately this site doesn't. It won't take long to compress the CSS in the following directory routes.

Code:

https://www.sinister.ly/cache/themes/theme16/global.css https://www.sinister.ly/mobiquo/smartbanner/appbanner.css

/theme16/global.css could save 4.2KiB (19% reduction).
/smartbanner/appbanner.css could save 1.1KiB (15% reduction).

Ending Statement
These four rules come straight from Google Insights. Doing the up top requests could drastically increase the page speed to Sinisterly thus making the members have a better experience. The server load can also be reduced by removing unused plugins by deleting them in the /inc/ folder, as well as deleting any other unused folders or files in the FTP server. In my experience on my newest site I can tell you that following what Google told me to do has drastically increased the page speed of my forum and with a little work I drastically reduced the server load by removing unneeded files. Hotlinking should also be prevented in the necessary directories. One more slick trick I know is right in the Avatar function. I've denied direct avatar uploads and require a URL upload instead to limit the amount of images that have to load per page.

Let's speed up the site. It can only get better from here. It won't take that long and it's four very basic rules that every webmaster should get to know. Sinisterly is a FANTASTIC forum and I'm only here to help by giving my personal experiences and the recommendations by professionals.

You're friendly ParaZite.