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I'd export your bookmarks from the bookmark manager and delete all the directorys and then re-configure your prefs.

I'm not a Firebird expert BTW.
 
I found that your profile is stored in a separate directory (C:\Document and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Phoenix\) so it was no worried.

0.6.1 now installed :)

Michael.
 
Re: Where to look for ideas and go faster stripes?

Originally posted by auric
Ps the text input box is now a lot wider, thanks.
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Yes - that was an easy fix :) Seems like vBulletin was optimized for a bug in Netscape ;)

Michael.
 
Looking good!

Well, since I enabled GZIP compression the average page size has gone down from around 27Kb to about 11Kb - lower than PFM without avatars and anything fun ;) - don't ask me how though TonyL, the only thing I can think of is that more browsers accessing ZG have GZIP support or that your hosting provider doesn't support GZIP (so it's not happening).

The upshot is that we're running at about 100Mb per day which is well within the 10Gb a month limit (322Mb a day).

Panic over :cool:

Michael.
 
MO - you're not helping.....that smilie alone is 28Kb :eek:

You might want to remove a few of them - or I'll have to put my moderator hat on :JOEL:

Michael.
 
Well, since I enabled GZIP compression the average page size has gone down from around 27Kb to about 11Kb - lower than PFM without avatars and anything fun - don't ask me how though TonyL, the only thing I can think of is that more browsers accessing ZG have GZIP support or that your hosting provider doesn't support GZIP (so it's not happening).
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What setting on gzip are you now using?

Gzip is definitely alive an well at pfm - I even found a link to a site a while back where you could paste in a URL and it would test it tell you if gzip was working, I did it with pfm and it said it was. I have it set at 1 at the moment as recommended on the forum, but if there are big gains to be had I'll up the value.

My theory as to why the stats are so different between pfm and ZG is that pfm currently has a larger userbase, i.e. for a given number of page views a larger amount will be from unique user IDs; hence more button image / logo refreshes etc. I don't know if there is anything more I can do to improve this aspect of performance - I'll search the vBulletin forum and try to work out what they consider a good size for a page view should be.

If the stats start getting towards the endstop at pfm I'll simply turn image attachments off!

Tony.
 
Michael just to clear things up in the hippys confused mind,if i post an image that is on a 3rd partys web space does this affect your bandwith? Also are custom avatars held on your web space?or is there a way that users can store them elswere?
 
Tony - on your recommendation I went back to using GZIP level 1 and that's what I'm using now. There didn't appear to be any difference between level 1 and level 9.

Just for completeness, I don't have a "size per page" item on my logs just a "total bytes" and "number of accesses" (which you can view on a daily, weekly or yearly basis). I'm just dividing my "total bytes" by "number of accesses" to get the average page size.

There was a distinct drop in this figure from about 22-27Kb down to around 11Kb after I turned on GZIP and I don't think anything else changed. The number of accesses per day haven't changed (about 10,000) but the number of bytes per day has dropped from around 250Kb to about 110Kb.

TMH - if you post an image that's hosted elsewhere then that doesn't add to the forum bandwith as browsers will pick it up from wherever it is. Custom avatars (which is all avatars on ZG) however are stored and served up by ZG so they do count toward the bandwith usage. There is a vBulletin hack somewhere to allow remotely hosted avatars but I haven't looked into it and TBH don't think it's worth it. The limit is now 20Kb which should be more than enough.

Michael.
 
I saw that yours was 22.6Kb so clearly the limit is not retro-active (would be surprised if it was). Don't worry TMH - you'rs is OK :)

The limit is there mainly for new users. "Founder" members get special rights :D

Michael.
 
Just for completeness, I don't have a "size per page" item on my logs just a "total bytes" and "number of accesses" (which you can view on a daily, weekly or yearly basis). I'm just dividing my "total bytes" by "number of accesses" to get the average page size.
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Hmmmââ'¬Â¦ I find stats hard enough without having to contend with things being called different names! I'm simply dividing the 'bytes' by 'page views' to get a feel of where I am. Is your 'number of accesses' page views or hits? I'd get quite remarkable stats if I divided the figure by hits, but that is pretty meaningless. The thing we need to optimise is the size of the data being served to users each time they navigate a new page on the forum.

Also worth checking is your top ten files (see mine on the pfm stats link earlier in this thread). These are obviously the files that will give the biggest benefit through optimisation. Do you have this info available to you? It would be interesting to compare, though they should be pretty much the same (I've done some light tweaking with CSS replacements for font definitions but that's it).

I would really like to understand why the avatars and flashing baubles everywhere are not causing you radically bigger page view sizes than pfm ââ'¬â€œ there is no logical way they can't! If your 'number of accesses' equates to my 'hits' then that would explain everything...

Tony.
 

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