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Siena is slower than Genoa out of the box simply because it has lots more in it. Here is what you should check first of all in config.php:

• $cfg['cache'] = TRUE;
• $cfg['xtpl_cache'] = TRUE;

If you have APC or Xcache or Memcached, you can also try enabling its variable cache:

• $cfg['cache_drv'] = 'Xcache'; // APC or Memcache

Then go to Administration / Configuration.

• In News plugin configuration set Cache TTL to 300 or above.
• In Recent items plugin configuration set Cache TTL to 60 or above.

If it doesn't help, then further SQL query statistics analysis is required.

$cfg['cache'] and $cfg['cache_drv'] don't depend on content change frequency, they simply speed things up and are highly recommended. Your site might be 30-50% slower if you have cache disabled (btw, it's enabled by default in Genoa too).

Just these 3 are experimental and moreover they won't work properly on your site because they are not compatible with URLeditor plugin yet:

$cfg['cache_index'] = FALSE;
$cfg['cache_page'] = FALSE;
$cfg['cache_forums'] = FALSE;

@trustmaster - Okay thanks for the info, then should i put "TRUE" for cacghe_drv variable also? Right now you see its blank, not even false ...

@Macik - okay , well I think the graphics are not BAD, they aren't the best I could lighten the design up more, probably more so in CSS and JS than actual image files. However, the bandwidth is in an example range, my real issues was with cpu usage.

I posted screenshots above of MYSQL stats as well as all other stats I can find, including bandwidth and most used files etc Stats above in the screens also show everything I can find right now.

Does it make a difference if I enabled or disable the recent activity plugin for the admin home page showing me last 7 days hits / new members etc ? I would like to have it enabled but disabled it for now.

You are saying it would not be sensible to disable it for performance or it would not be sensible to keep it enabled ?

Also, I wanted to ask is there a way to use memcached with cotonti ? I have that option but I am not using it..

 

Also, I wanted to ask is there a way to use memcached with cotonti ? I have that option but I am not using it..

As manuall says for `$cfg['cache_drv']` — possible values: APC, eAccelerator, Memcache, Xcache. But I'm not tested it for perfomance on production.

I would like to know more information on this, So far the adjustments I have made might of helped a bit.. but nothing too good yet.

How can I take advantage of this , how to use memcache?

Thank you

Okay, i have memcached instaled on my server so i'll ask for help on how to get that setup with my server admins. I'll enable it with the config first.

 had no idea about the above links button.gif.. wtf.

I can't always control what is hosted on my site and what isn't because a lot of the content is user submitted

Yeah since posting I been thinking about ways to work with that... I'll ask everyone submitting pages to upload the files to our server and also optimize them,they dont have to be 3000 pixels and 4mb... ridiculous.

Anyways I deleted those dead images and it helped a bit. but with that tool you linked me to, there is always a HUGE wait time for the site its self.. :(

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I'm looking into using expire headers for the skin files now

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Using some tools to check the websites performance I see this:

Resources with a "?" in the URL are not cached by some proxy caching servers. Remove the query string and encode the parameters into the URL for the following resources:

• http://streetlegalmods.com/rc.php?rc=global.nemesis.css
• http://streetlegalmods.com/rc.php?rc=global.nemesis.js

What can or should I do about that?

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I also see i have the option of using zend_optimizer and APC, what should I do, which one to use, or will that conflict with memcache or just not do anything?

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So i made some changes to htaccess to cache images and stuff etc , it looks like the score is better and the tool shows improvements, but its still complaining about the CSS and JS

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here is a shot from another tool also showing an issue with the CSS and JS links using "?" 

Also it complains about image dimensions , some of them are within the content but some seem to be in the CMF side, which of course I can still fix but maybe you guys would consider doing something with that for future releases? idk if thats a big deal or not

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Also have an option to use this

Varnish

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture. One of the key features of Varnish Cache, in addition to its performance, is the flexibility of its configuration language, VCL. VCL enables you to write policies on how incoming requests should be handled. In such a policy you can decide what content you want to serve, from where you want to get the content and how the request or response should be altered.

Any thoughts?