A tool like vBSEO goes a long way to help with speeding up the download of your vBulletin pages by stripping out whitespace and comments, but the javascript that's included into each page may be slowing down your site.

I've started down the track of developing some tools to help speed up vBulletin and improve site scores on YSlow.

The first is a minimized version of the Javascript that comes with vBulletin.

**remove for copyright infringement**

Stay tuned for more performance tips and tools.

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I look forward to following this, thanks Noodles

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Hey Noodles, long time no see :-)

This sounds interesting, but by minimizing the code, did you strip some functions or just recoded with more knowledge ?

As a rule, take a backup of the files you replace, in case something breaks ;-) Maybe some hack, addon was coded and breaks by these changes...

thanks for charing Noodles, will for sure test this tonight when I finish working in my house

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Looks like an interesting little tool. I might have to look into it

All the functionality has been kept, just ran the js through a program that strips out whitespace, comments and other things.

I'm running it on Wireless and Wifi Forums if you want to see it in action (just to prove that all the functionality is still there and not broken).

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i loaded the js files from that blog on talk delaware. seems to be faster....

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Philly Sports
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Have replaced the code on my Aeroclix
Always hard to say for me and my 56 k line but seems to loads faster indeed.
Thanks Noodles to share and if you have more of those things ...
Question flashing true the mind, can't the same be done with php ? Get the code cleaned from all comments for ex ... ???

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I'll give it a shot

Seems a little quicker but I thought the place loaded fast as it was.

Thanks Again Noodles

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for me quicker for sure, I guess those having big pipes won't see much but for poor crazy like me every byte counts :-)

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I've looked at compressing the javascripts before. In all honesty jelsoft should release the javascripts in the package as compressed as most people will never need it, in an uncompressed form anyway. Javascript libraries have been doing it for years. (jquery for example).

The only problem is having to do the whole process again when you upgrade.

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