Comments on: Goodbye vBulletin! Our switch to drupal forums http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/01/13/goodbye-vbulletin-our-switch-to-drupal-forums/ Web design and that Fri, 04 May 2012 23:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jack http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/01/13/goodbye-vbulletin-our-switch-to-drupal-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-20111 jack Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:46:54 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2008/01/13/goodbye-vbulletin-our-switch-to-drupal-forums/#comment-20111 i use drupal too. i think this is different and cool i use drupal too. i think this is different and cool

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]]> By: Megan http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/01/13/goodbye-vbulletin-our-switch-to-drupal-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-15434 Megan Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:31:53 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2008/01/13/goodbye-vbulletin-our-switch-to-drupal-forums/#comment-15434 Oh, cool, thanks for that! I'll have to show my partner so he can fix anything that we can do something about. He's beeing fiddling with a lot of stuff trying to optimize the site. Oh, cool, thanks for that! I’ll have to show my partner so he can fix anything that we can do something about. He’s beeing fiddling with a lot of stuff trying to optimize the site.

]]> By: Jahangir http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/01/13/goodbye-vbulletin-our-switch-to-drupal-forums/comment-page-1/#comment-15423 Jahangir Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:42:32 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2008/01/13/goodbye-vbulletin-our-switch-to-drupal-forums/#comment-15423 Congratulations on your move to Drupal. Am sure your experience with Drupal will be much better than vBulletin. Had a look at the site and it does look nice and clean. Ran YSlow on your homepage and this is what was the result D 1. Make fewer HTTP requests F 2. Use a CDN F 3. Add an Expires header A 5. Put CSS at the top A 6. Move scripts to the bottom A 7. Avoid CSS expressions n/a 8. Make JS and CSS external A 9. Reduce DNS lookups A 10. Minify JS A 11. Avoid redirects A 12. Remove duplicate scripts F 13. Configure ETags 8 A's out of 11 not bad at all :) Congratulations on your move to Drupal. Am sure your experience with Drupal will be much better than vBulletin.

Had a look at the site and it does look nice and clean.
Ran YSlow on your homepage and this is what was the result
D 1. Make fewer HTTP requests
F 2. Use a CDN
F 3. Add an Expires header
A 5. Put CSS at the top
A 6. Move scripts to the bottom
A 7. Avoid CSS expressions
n/a 8. Make JS and CSS external
A 9. Reduce DNS lookups
A 10. Minify JS
A 11. Avoid redirects
A 12. Remove duplicate scripts
F 13. Configure ETags

8 A’s out of 11 not bad at all :)

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