What does it do? (The following statistics are from SMF 2.0!)
This modification improves the speed and efficiency of avatar loading on your SMF 2.0 powered forum. By default SMF loads some unnecessary bits and pieces not required to load avatars. So I have created a setup to only load the bare basics which reduces queries by at the least 2 and a maximum of 5.

The great thing is no theme or URL edits are required, the only edit is to the index.php file, so even if your forum is totally decked out, this modification should install with ease

If you are going to use this modification on SMF 2.0, download avataroptimizationv1-for2.zip.

UPDATE: I have ported this modification to work with SMF 1.1.9. From my testings (Sorry, I don't have APC/Memcache/eAccelerator or any of those so I couldn't use caching) it doesn't yield as great of results as SMF 2.0 does, but it uses ~0.03 seconds faster, and without caching 4 queries, though with caching I would suspect it would use 1-2.

If you want to install this modification on SMF 1.1.9, download avataroptimizationv1-for1.zip

Changelog
1.0.1 - This only affects SMF 2.0 RC1-1, just uninstall the old one and install the new one. This fixes a little bug
1.0 - Initially added

avataroptimizationv1-for1.zip 3.58 KB

avataroptimizationv101-for2.zip 3.82 KB

Manual installation info 1.1.9 2.0 RC1-1