Short Links

[Joshua Dickerson]

Link to Mod

Save bandwidth by reducing your links from their full location (http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php) to a shortcut (index.php). If the Simple Machines Community Forum did this, it would save around 20KB per pageview on the board index alone! Let me know if there are any bugs or if there are more places this can be done. It is very simple modification - just changing $scripturl.

[Arantor]

Simple but effective

[netoya]

Is it saves only on board index or also in topics?

[Arantor]

Throughout the entire forum - every single page. groundup just quoted that one page as an example.

[netoya]

Installed but don't see any changes. Is it in html-code only? all links still have http://www.yoursite.com/forum/...

[Arantor]

Have a look at the HTML. The links won't contain the first part of the link in, but your browser still displays it because that's where the link will ultimately go.

[netoya]

great! but images still have http://www.yoursite.com/forum/ in img src=

[Arantor]

That's because they're not driven from the same place, and it's not something that can be reliably removed by a mod (ever).

[netoya]

   
Unfortunately uninstalled   mail notification on topic new post is now also trimmed: index.php?topic=7819.new;topicseen#new

[Filipina]

Have a look at the HTML. The links won't contain the first part of the link in, but your browser still displays it because that's where the link will ultimately go.

Yep very true... example of source code on board links

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"index.php?board=225.0"

I am not sure if it is the MOD, but my forum seems to have more juice now What a great idea. Thanks groundup! 

[Arantor]

@netoya: That one's a bug, unfortunately.

I'm sure groundup will take a look shortly to fix this one.

@Filipina: It will a little faster since there is physically less data being moved around.

[Filipina]

   
Unfortunately uninstalled   mail notification on topic new post is now also trimmed: index.php?topic=7819.new;topicseen#new

Hmmm.... that could be a problem

[Filipina]

Ok I will uninstall for now, but this appears to be a great feature once that bug is worked out

[Joshua Dickerson]

Yeah, I'll fix it in a little bit. Just need to change $scripturl in Subs-Post.php to either $boardurl or make it concatenated.

[sportin3]

Does this mod have any impact on search engines and their ability to index your site?

[Joshua Dickerson]

It shouldn't have any negative impact. Though, I don't work for any search engines.

[Arantor]

Won't break search engines, at least, not properly written ones, since all this does is revert from absolute links to relative ones, which goes back to HTML 1.0. Most of the web would not be indexed if relative links didn't exist.

[sportin3]

I installed the mod and tested it. The file size was about 40k smaller 0n my site. It defiantly made my site run faster but I had to uninstall it due to a bug it was causing in my site. Everything looked good until I would click on the home button in the top menu. It was giving my a concatenated url that was a mix of the url I was just at and the index url.

[Tiribulus]

I will be interested to see how this develops.

[LHW]

Has anyone tested this with SMG?