A suggestion re board performance

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Another vBulletin board I frequent did a performance analysis and found that the forum jump box (the drop-down in the bottom-right corner) was the cause of a significant performance hit. I don’t know if it’s the case on the SDMB, but perhaps it might be worth checking.

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I’m not saying it’s not possible, but I’d be pretty shocked if this was the case – the Forum Jump menu is just a simple HTML select pulldown. It does call a script to redirect, which is more work for the server than someone simply clicking a link, but it’s got to be pretty minimal – just a simple variable substitution and then a redirect. (I could go dig up the source, if anyone’s that interested.)



	<strong>Forum Jump</strong><br />
	<select name="f" onchange="this.form.submit();">
		<optgroup label="Site Areas">

			<option value="cp" >User Control Panel</option>
			<option value="pm" >Private Messages</option>
			<option value="subs" >Subscriptions</option>
			<option value="wol" >Who's Online</option>
			<option value="search" >Search Forums</option>
			<option value="home" >Forums Home</option>

		</optgroup>
		
		<optgroup label="Forums">
		<option value="15" class="fjdpth0" > Main</option>
<option value="2" class="fjsel" selected="selected">     About This Message Board</option>
<option value="1" class="fjdpth1" >     Comments on Cecil's Columns</option>
<option value="6" class="fjdpth1" >     Comments on Staff Reports</option>

<option value="3" class="fjdpth1" >     General Questions</option>
<option value="7" class="fjdpth1" >     Great Debates</option>
<option value="13" class="fjdpth1" >     Cafe Society</option>
<option value="17" class="fjdpth1" >     The Game Room</option>
<option value="12" class="fjdpth1" >     In My Humble Opinion</option>

<option value="4" class="fjdpth1" >     Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)</option>
<option value="5" class="fjdpth1" >     The BBQ Pit</option>
<option value="19" class="fjdpth0" > Side Conversations</option>
<option value="18" class="fjdpth1" >     The Barn House</option>
<option value="20" class="fjdpth0" > Straight Dope Chicago</option>

<option value="26" class="fjdpth1" >     Sweet Home Chicago</option>
<option value="27" class="fjdpth1" >     Out on the Town</option>
<option value="28" class="fjdpth1" >     Questions, Comments for SD Chicago Columns</option>

		</optgroup>
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I remember expressing my surprise too, but the administrators did the analysis.