Remove no-cache from the headers.

[Apoc]

Title says it all. (Admins will know what I'm talking about)

The forums are large enough that not allowing users to cache parts of the page, is adding a significant load on the server.

Removing it may cause issues with updates to the forum view, but it's negligible at best. (Usually about 20-30 second between updates if you F5 constantly)

[KuRIoS]

u got a point....

[Peacelock]

I secound this suggestion.

[whitekidney]

I secound this suggestion.

You secound ?
Do you even know what it's about ?

[Verye]

Well, I know the basics of cache in general (a cache is a place where things are stored; in computer terms, it refers to a temporary storage of memory), and Apoc gave a little description of it, and although it may make updates a bit slower, I'd much rather have faster forums than to-the-second updates.

So, if it's easy to remove, I say go for it.

[ReidE96]

I saw this just after KuR replied and wasn't gonna post, but I suppose I will now.

Cache is your browser storing things from the site temporarily to avoid continually loading them. It decreases load times and server load. A hard refresh (ctrl+f5) clears the cache when the page is reloaded. No-cache just tells the browser not to cache the page. Personally, I think this is a really good idea. Didn't know we had no-cache in the header.

[EmiloZ]

Ye, /signed

[ubrpwnt]

Woah shit so this is why I can't load SB? Please do it NOW.

[Hellgawd]

No, this most likely isn't affecting your shoutbawx ubrpwnt.
Now, the forums are loading lightning fast for me, so I see no need for this. Keep it in.
P.S: Don't /sign!

Ye, /signed

[ubrpwnt]

Hellgawd, I think it is, considering that it just says loading and loading. Yet I can't load it.

[Cush]

Sometimes the forums take around 6 seconds for me just to load a page, and the bawx longer :P

[Igzz]

I personally have no problems, takes like 2-4 sec to load the forum for me, and about 5 sec for SB to load.

[Viter]

MMOwned is damn fast if you use firefox and remember to clear your cache.

If you use IE then it takes years

[Apoc]

MMOwned loads great. (Averaging ~168kb per page after being gzipped, and ~114kb/s transfer speed.)

There is a lot of CSS being passed when no-cache is set. (12.34 kB (12,640 B) + all the additional CSS elsewhere.) This can be cached by your browser so you only need to load the CSS every once in a while.

For instance the current CSS:

body
{
	background: #1b1b1b url(../../images/greenfox/misc/bg_tile.gif);
	color: #848484;
	font: 9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	margin: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
}
a:link, body_alink
{
	color: #eeeeee;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited, body_avisited
{
	color: #eeeeee;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover, a:active, body_ahover
{
	color: #cdf16c;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.page
{
	background: #1b1b1b;
	color: #848484;
}
.page a:link, .page_alink
{
	text-decoration: none;
}
.page a:visited, .page_avisited
{
	text-decoration: none;
}
.page a:hover, .page a:active, .page_ahover
{
	text-decoration: underline;
}
td, th, p, li
{
	font: 9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.tborder
{
	background: #1f1f1f;
	color: #848484;
	border: 1px solid #363636;
}
.tcat
{
	background: #5b8d22 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font: bold 9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.tcat a:link, .tcat_alink
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.tcat a:visited, .tcat_avisited
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.tcat a:hover, .tcat a:active, .tcat_ahover
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.thead
{
	background: #373737 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_thead.gif) repeat-x top left;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font: bold 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	border-top: 1px solid #363636;
}
.thead a:link, .thead_alink
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.thead a:visited, .thead_avisited
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.thead a:hover, .thead a:active, .thead_ahover
{
	color: #cdf16c;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.tfoot
{
	background: #282828;
	color: #848484;
}
.tfoot a:link, .tfoot_alink
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.tfoot a:visited, .tfoot_avisited
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.tfoot a:hover, .tfoot a:active, .tfoot_ahover
{
	color: #cdf16c;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.alt1, .alt1Active
{
	background: #2c2c2c;
	color: #848484;
	font-family: tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	border-top: 1px solid #363636;
	border-left: 1px solid #363636;
}
.alt2, .alt2Active
{
	background: #282828;
	color: #848484;
	font-family: tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	border-top: 1px solid #363636;
	border-left: 1px solid #363636;
}
.inlinemod
{
	background: #333333;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	border-top: 1px solid #363636;
	border-left: 1px solid #363636;
}
.wysiwyg
{
	background: #2c2c2c;
	color: #848484;
	font: 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
textarea, .bginput
{
	background: #000000;
	color: #cdf16c;
	font: 9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	border: 1px solid #1f1f1f;
}
.bginput option, .bginput optgroup
{
	font-size: 9pt;
	font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.button
{
	background: #5b8d22 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	border: 1px solid #5b8d22;
}
select
{
	background: #000000;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	border: 1px solid #1f1f1f;
}
option, optgroup
{
	font-size: 11px;
	font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.smallfont
{
	font: 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.time
{
	color: #cdf16c;
}
.navbar
{
	background: #5b8d22 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font: bold 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.navbar a:link, .navbar_alink
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.navbar a:visited, .navbar_avisited
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.navbar a:hover, .navbar a:active, .navbar_ahover
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.highlight
{
	color: #FF0000;
	font-weight: bold;
}
.fjsel
{
	background: #000000;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
.fjdpth0
{
	background: #5b8d22;
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
.fjdpth3
{
	background: #3366FF;
}
.panel
{
	background: #2c2c2c;
	color: #848484;
	padding: 10px;
	border: 2px outset;
}
.panelsurround
{
	background: #282828;
	color: #848484;
	border-top: 1px solid #363636;
	border-left: 1px solid #363636;
	border-right: 1px solid #363636;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #363636;
}
legend
{
	color: #cdf16c;
	font: 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.vbmenu_control
{
	background: #5b8d22 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font: bold 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px;
	white-space: nowrap;
}
.vbmenu_control a:link, .vbmenu_control_alink
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vbmenu_control a:visited, .vbmenu_control_avisited
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vbmenu_control a:hover, .vbmenu_control a:active, .vbmenu_control_ahover
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.vbmenu_popup
{
	background: #1f1f1f;
	color: #848484;
	border: 1px solid #363636;
}
.vbmenu_option
{
	background: #282828;
	color: #848484;
	font: 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	white-space: nowrap;
	cursor: pointer;
	border-top: 1px solid #363636;
	border-left: 1px solid #363636;
}
.vbmenu_option a:link, .vbmenu_option_alink
{
	color: #848484;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vbmenu_option a:visited, .vbmenu_option_avisited
{
	color: #848484;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vbmenu_option a:hover, .vbmenu_option a:active, .vbmenu_option_ahover
{
	color: #848484;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vbmenu_hilite
{
	background: #2c2c2c;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	font: 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	white-space: nowrap;
	cursor: pointer;
	border-top: 1px solid #363636;
	border-left: 1px solid #363636;
}
.vbmenu_hilite a:link, .vbmenu_hilite_alink
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vbmenu_hilite a:visited, .vbmenu_hilite_avisited
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vbmenu_hilite a:hover, .vbmenu_hilite a:active, .vbmenu_hilite_ahover
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: none;
}
/* ***** styling for 'big' usernames on postbit etc. ***** */
.bigusername { font-size: 14pt; }

/* ***** small padding on 'thead' elements ***** */
td.thead, th.thead, div.thead { padding: 4px; }

/* ***** basic styles for multi-page nav elements */
.pagenav a { text-decoration: none; }
.pagenav td { padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px; }

/* ***** de-emphasized text */
.shade, a.shade:link, a.shade:visited { color: #777777; text-decoration: none; }
a.shade:active, a.shade:hover { color: #FF4400; text-decoration: underline; }
.tcat .shade, .thead .shade, .tfoot .shade { color: #DDDDDD; }

/* ***** define margin and font-size for elements inside panels ***** */
.fieldset { margin-bottom: 6px; }
.fieldset, .fieldset td, .fieldset p, .fieldset li { font-size: 11px; }

/* ***** don't change the following ***** */
form { display: inline; }
label { cursor: default; }
.normal { font-weight: normal; }
.inlineimg { vertical-align: middle; }
.underline { text-decoration: underline; }
		/** DEBUT MGC CHATBOX **/
		.mgc_cb_date {
		   color : #555555;
		}
		
		.mgc_cb_me {
		   color : #FF0000;
		}
		/** FIN MGC CHATBOX **/
/* Here you can change the look of the post text and links */

.vb_postbit
{
	color: #848484;
    font: 12px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vb_postbit a:link
{
	color: #848484;
        font: 12px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
        border-bottom: 1px dotted #cdf16c;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vb_postbit a:visited
{
	color: #848484;
        font: 12px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
        border-bottom: 1px dotted #cdf16c;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.vb_postbit a:hover, .vb_postbit a:active
{
	color: #cdf16c;
        font: 12px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
        border-bottom: 1px dotted #848484;
	text-decoration: none;
}

/* ***** Header and Nav  ***** */
.header_bg {
background: #000000 url(../../images/greenfox/misc/nav_bg.gif) ;
}
.vb_navigation {
background: #000000 url(../../images/greenfox/misc/nav_bg_small.gif) ;
}

/* ***** navigation roll-overs element */

.css_nav {
float: left;
width: 78px;
height: 34px;
color: #ffffff;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border: 0px;
}

.css_nav a:link , .css_nav a:visited {
display: block;
background-image: url(../../images/greenfox/misc/nav.gif);
color: #ffffff;
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 31px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
width: 78px;
height: 34px;
}

.css_nav a:hover, .css_nav a:active {
background-image: url(../../images/greenfox/misc/nav_over.gif);
color: #e3f9c2;
text-decoration: none;
line-height: 33px;
width: 78px;
height: 34px;
}

/* ***** postbit user info  ***** */
.postbit_box 
{
background-color: #edf3f9;
color: #000000;
padding:7px 7px 7px 7px;
border: 1px dotted #CFCFCF;
width: 292px;
}

/* ***** spacers and paddings ***** */

.cat_spacer {
padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;
}
.spacer {
padding:5px 0px 5px 0px;
}
.spacer_small {
padding:2px 0px 2px 0px;
}
/* ***** side borders ***** */ 
.side_borders {
width: 762px; 
border-left: 2px solid #0e0e0f;
border-right: 2px solid #0e0e0f;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}


/* ***** make announcements, stickies moderated, soft deleted posts, poll posts and search result since last visit pretty ***** */
.announcement {
background-color: #3d4c3b;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
border-left: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
}
.sticky {
background-color: #363d38;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
border-left: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
}
.poll {
background-color: #1f2e38;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
border-left: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
}
.moderated {
background-color: #3e3e3e;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
border-left: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
}
.subscribed {
background-color: #434236;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
border-left: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
}
.deleted {
background-color: #1b1b1b;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #363636;
border-left: 1px solid #363636;
}
.last_visit {
background-color: #363d38;
color: #ffffff;
border-top: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
border-left: 1px solid #4e4e4e;
}

/* ***** dotted hr ***** */
div.hr {
height: 2px;
background: url(../../images/greenfox/misc/hr.gif) repeat scroll center;
}
div.hr hr {
display: none;
}

/* ***** make dropdown menu pretty ***** */

.vb_menu_control { 
background: #373737 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_thead.gif) repeat-x top left;
color:  #ffffff;
font: bold 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
border-top: 1px solid #363636;
padding: 3px 6px 3px 6px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.vb_menu_control a:link {
color:  #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.vb_menu_control a:visited {
color:  #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.vb_menu_control a:hover, .vb_menu_control a:active {
color:  #cdf16c;
text-decoration: underline;
}

/* ***** navbar dot border ***** */
.vb_navbar
{
	background: #1f1f1f;
	color: #848484;
	border: 1px dotted #363636;
}

/* ***** category bottom ***** */
.cat_bottom
{
background: #1f1f1f url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_thead.gif) repeat-x top left;
border-top: #363636 1px solid;
}

Can be turned into:

body{background:#1b1b1b url(../../images/greenfox/misc/bg_tile.gif);color:#848484;font:9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;margin:0 5px}a:visited,body_avisited,a:link,body_alink{color:#eee;text-decoration:none}.page{background:#1b1b1b;color:#848484}td,th,p,li{font:9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif}.tcat{background:#5b8d22 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;color:#FFF;font:700 9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif}.thead{background:#373737 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_thead.gif) repeat-x top left;color:#FFF;font:700 11px tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border-top:1px solid #363636}.tfoot{background:#282828;color:#848484}.alt1,.alt1Active{background:#2c2c2c;color:#848484;font-family:tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border-top:1px solid #363636;border-left:1px solid #363636}.alt2,.alt2Active{background:#282828;color:#848484;font-family:tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border-top:1px solid #363636;border-left:1px solid #363636}.inlinemod{background:#333;color:#FFF;border-top:1px solid #363636;border-left:1px solid #363636}.wysiwyg{background:#2c2c2c;color:#848484;font:10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif}textarea,.bginput{background:#000;color:#cdf16c;font:9pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border:1px solid #1f1f1f}.bginput option,.bginput optgroup{font-size:9pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif}.button{background:#5b8d22 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;color:#FFF;font:11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border:1px solid #5b8d22}select{background:#000;color:#FFF;font:11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;border:1px solid #1f1f1f}option,optgroup{font-size:11px;font-family:verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif}.smallfont{font:11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif}.time{color:#cdf16c}.navbar{background:#5b8d22 url(../../images/greenfox/gradients/gradient_tcat.gif) repeat-x top left;color:#FFF;font:700 11px verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif}.highlight{color:#F00;font-weight:700}.fjsel{background:#000;color:#FFF}.fjdpth0{background:#5b8d22;color:#FFF}.fjdpth3{background:#36F}.panel{background:#2c2c2c;color:#848484;padding:10px;border:2px outset}.panelsurround{background:#282828;color:#848484;border-top:1px solid #363636;border-left:1px solid #363636;border-right:1px solid #363636;border-bottom:1px solid #363636}legend{color:#cdf16c;font:11px tahoma, verdana, 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The final size is 8.27 kB (8,467 B), which is 4.08 kB smaller, or 33.01% reduction in CSS alone.

The images on the site can do for some optimization, (most can be cut down at least 20% which would reduce traffic overall by quite a lot) and a lot of JavaScript can be passed in separate files to be cached as well. (Also, they can be compressed to be only 1 line with as few spaces as possible to remove even more bandwidth from each page load).

From a quick look at the JS that gets loaded each page, it can be cut down by ~30kb per page just in JavaScript alone. (Though, it would take a few file edits to do so, and may be annoying, but be better in the long run)

As for the shoutbawx, it's loading as fast as it's able to. Keep in mind it's fully AJAX, so it's doing a lot of POST requests to the server on load, as well as a ton of parsing (for name colors, and text colors). And it usually only takes me a second or two to load.

The list goes on with different optimizations, but I won't bore you guys. :P

[Herleybob]

I would like this.