Too many JavaScript files on Advanced Editor slows down Vanilla forum sites.

Prosper

Why will Advanced Editor addon come with many JavaScript files. Too many js files slow down Vanilla forum as reported by Google PageSpeed Insight. Please can someone combine all the JavaScript files into just one? I believe this will speed up Vanilla forum.

http://www.myforum.com/plugins/editor/js/editor.js?v=1.7.2 http://www.myforum.com/plugins/editor/js/jquery.ui.widget.js?v=1.7.2 http://www.myforum.com/plugins/editor/js/jquery.iframe-transport.js?v=1.7.2 http://www.myforum.com/plugins/editor/js/jquery.fileupload.js?v=1.7.2

vrijvlinder

Images and other content are the real cause of slowness… try using the default text box and see if the speed improves…

Prosper

@vrijvlinder - Yes, non-optimized images slows down vanilla forum.
However, Google specifically mentioned JavaScript files as major cause and advises "Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript files". Obviously "Advanced Editor" has 4 JavaScript files! So combining these JavaScript files into one will definitely improve Vanilla forum speed specially for mobile browsers.

vrijvlinder

Sometimes that is not a good idea but try this

http://madskristensen.net/post/google-analytics-vs-google-page-speed

Prosper

@vrijvlinder said:
Sometimes that is not a good idea but try this

http://madskristensen.net/post/google-analytics-vs-google-page-speed

Thank you. I have just implemented the idea. However, this acts only on Google Analytics js. Do you have any idea about other js files especially that of Advanced Editor?

vrijvlinder

Maybe this can help same site…

http://madskristensen.net/post/bundling-minification-and-client-side-compilation

You tried using the Consolidate plugin ? Don't know of anything else for vanilla. Other people have not complained about this, it may be your own fault.

R_J

@Prosper said:
I believe this will speed up Vanilla forum.

Not essentially. The numerous css and js files are a bad habit of Vanilla/something that should be handled by the framework, that's true, but if you want to speed up your installation, there are much more steps to do before you go to this part.

Server power
memcached
APC or OpCache
Use htaccess to cache assets on the user side

Then you can think about fine tuning and that would include consolidating css and js. The minify plugin is deprecated but it could still serve as a blueprint.

River

@R_J said:

@Prosper said:
I believe this will speed up Vanilla forum.

Not essentially. The numerous css and js files are a bad habit of Vanilla/something that should be handled by the framework, that's true, but if you want to speed up your installation, there are much more steps to do before you go to this part.

Server power
memcached
APC or OpCache
Use htaccess to cache assets on the user side

yes, improve the underlying host, and streamline and remove time hogs on your forum as well which probably consume more time in 10s to 100s in terms of magnitude vs. a few milliseconds you might save combining the js.