Forum link is in my signature. What can I do to increase my forums loading speed? I am thinking about reducing the size of my banner too. Would that help a lot, or not really?
Are you asking about the baseball forum in your signature? If so, you need to SERIOUSLY reduce the size of the header. Its 231.81 KB - the recommended size of an entire homepage should not be any more then 100kb. So your banner is 2.3X larger then the recommended size for an entire home page. Get that header down to 30kb. Right now its in png format, convert it to jpg and that should really help out, and reduce the resolution. And your home page has all kinds of icons for each forum category. In other words, your forum is too image heavy.
Alright. I am going to reduce the banner image by about 60 pixels. Any other suggestions? All the images our hosted on our server too.
Remove the page rank logo in the footer. When I loaded the page, that was one of the hang ups for me. You actually have three huge logos: logo4.gif - 237kB 4_tbe_logo.jpg - 101kB bg.jpg - 90kB Right now, the front page loads in at 773kB, of which 640kB is images. Of which those three up there account for 430kB of that total. Not a biggie but you have an image sitting at http://i27.tinypic.com/28a4wsp.png It's always best to have everything come from a single source or else the browser has to do a lookup and that takes time. A good site for reviewing websites: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ I've suggested it previously. Hope this helps, -drmike
always use the smallest and least amount of images as possible and make sure your pages xhtml code is valid w3c (a good forum that produces clean fastloading xhtml code is punbb)