MyBB's front end is based on very, very outdated layout techniques, and this won't change in 1.8.
It can all be "fixed" by theme developers though,
I am working on a theme framework for 1.8 myself.
(2014-04-22, 08:47 PM)maniacmusic Wrote: [ -> ]MyBB's front end is based on very, very outdated layout techniques, and this won't change in 1.8.
It can all be "fixed" by theme developers though,
I am working on a theme framework for 1.8 myself.
Wouldn't fixing many of these issues in new themes by theme developers make them lose support for plugins though?
The function matters, the rest is a little HTML & CSS and I will port plugins myself (write tutorials) if requested to improve the offering.
Major plugins will be "ported" in advance such as MyAlerts.
I would take the PageSpeed Results with a pinch of salt. Most of the "issues" are related to using images and the javascript loading in the head. Maybe 1.8 will fix this; it is using sprites for images as far as I know, but no idea about where the JS is loading.
I fixed some things that pagespeed recommended. went from like 60% to 90%. There was zero discernible difference in page load speed. Their 'fixes' have nothing to do with actual speed and is mostly much ado about nothing. Run around and fix a bunch of crap so people with 56k modems can shave a second off their 45 second page load times.
I don't even want to think about the number of man hours spent on this fruitless mission Google pagespeed has sent 100's of thousands on. It's got to be millions of man hours.
Still, it can't hurt to optimize that area if possible. But I only say that because there's a possibility TTFB can affect pagerank. Really interesting read if you have the time
Quote:However, our data shows there is a correlation between lower time-to-first-byte (TTFB) metrics and higher search engine rankings. Websites with servers and back-end infrastructure that could quickly deliver web content had a higher search ranking than those that were slower. This means that, despite conventional wisdom, it is back-end website performance and not front-end website performance that directly impacts a website's search engine ranking. The question is, why?
http://moz.com/blog/how-website-speed-ac...ch-ranking
Not sure whether TTFB can be improved or not through MyBB code optimization.