I've been working on starting my first serious forum project where I plan to put long term effort into it and it actually succeed. That being said I spent most of today tweaking the forum to load at the fastest speed possible. Could someone here give me their opinion on this? Thank you and you can see my forum url in my signature.
Awesome! I know the browser check on first load slows your first page load down but it's to reserve resources for users rather than spam-bots. Obviously legitimate search engines Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, etc are exempted from this page. The only thing slowing down the site is the lack of nodes. While there is a separate MySQL server, there is only 1 node running Mybb for the time being. It may change depending on needs. My number one goal is user-experience which means taking the users to pages as fast as possible.