How to increase submit speed from 45s to a fraction while keeping Akismet anti-spam

**davy68** · 03-03-2008, 04:45 AM

Using pligg (currently version 9.9.0) on Bligg - burgerjournalistiek - artikelen delen en beoordelen we suffered, like many of you, some severe spam attacks.
Luckily, Ashdigg came with the Akismet anti-spam module to the rescue.
Problem was, however, that submitting a story became very lengthy. We sometimes had to wait more than a minute after pushing the submit button. Disabling the module turned out to be one solution.

We found a better one:

On line 141 of modules/akismet/libs/akismet.class.php:

Code:

strToUpper($type)." /{$this-  >akismetVersion}/$path HTTP/1.1\r\n" .

replace this with

Code:

strToUpper($type)." /{$this-  >akismetVersion}/$path HTTP/1.0\r\n"  .

and that's it. How one character can make a world of difference.

It was tested on Bligg - burgerjournalistiek - artikelen delen en beoordelen and allowed us to keep the akismet module enabled.

In the hope that this can help others having similar problems. Our 2cents as thank you for developping pligg in the first place.
If found helpful, please include by default in the next version of pligg.

**bhatiacane** · 03-03-2008, 05:16 AM

your website is working very fast (open very fast) please tell why my OnlineEquityCalls.com / Published News is open slow i already disable Akismet v0.4

Originally Posted by davy68

Using pligg (currently version 9.9.0) on Bligg - burgerjournalistiek - artikelen delen en beoordelen we suffered, like many of you, some severe spam attacks.
Luckily, Ashdigg came with the Akismet anti-spam module to the rescue.
Problem was, however, that submitting a story became very lengthy. We sometimes had to wait more than a minute after pushing the submit button. Disabling the module turned out to be one solution.

We found a better one:

On line 141 of modules/akismet/libs/akismet.class.php:

Code:

strToUpper($type)." /{$this-  >akismetVersion}/$path HTTP/1.1\r\n" .

replace this with

Code:

strToUpper($type)." /{$this-  >akismetVersion}/$path HTTP/1.0\r\n"

and that's it. How one character can make a world of difference.

It was tested on Bligg - burgerjournalistiek - artikelen delen en beoordelen and allowed us to keep the akismet module enabled.

In the hope that this can help others having similar problems. Our 2cents as thank you for developping pligg in the first place.
If found helpful, please include by default in the next version of pligg.

**aaronrdavis** · 03-03-2008, 06:34 AM

Thank You Thank You Thank You!

**mushmoosh** · 03-03-2008, 08:14 AM

Excellent! Thank you!

The load times of your site are amazing. Can you please tell me where you are hosting, server environment, any tweaks made to the code to improve load times?

**en3r0** · 03-03-2008, 08:38 AM

You do have some impressive response times on your site, is it the host or did you tweak some things?

**lacasuela** · 03-03-2008, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by mushmoosh

Excellent! Thank you!

The load times of your site are amazing. Can you please tell me where you are hosting, server environment, any tweaks made to the code to improve load times?

i'm having problems with this too, i'm with OVH some time i get 3seconds but mostly 8.5-12secs see 15sec

**davy68** · 03-04-2008, 05:56 AM

We are very happy with our Belgian ISP (Openminds: Home Page)

Maybe also some general rules we try to adhere:

keep images small
avoid javascript whenever possible
limit text per page
upgrade code to latest version

We also created an extra index in the database based on forum guidelines. Have to look this up for details (not sure about impact)

**catchpen** · 03-11-2008, 01:42 PM

Just an FYI for everyone with 9.9 - I don't even have this enabled yet (haven't got my Askimet key yet) and it sped up my submit step 3 big time when changing the 1 to a 0 like bhatiacane explained. Thanks so much!

**fhelik** · 03-12-2008, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by davy68

Using pligg (currently version 9.9.0) on Bligg - burgerjournalistiek - artikelen delen en beoordelen we suffered, like many of you, some severe spam attacks.
Luckily, Ashdigg came with the Akismet anti-spam module to the rescue.
Problem was, however, that submitting a story became very lengthy. We sometimes had to wait more than a minute after pushing the submit button. Disabling the module turned out to be one solution.

We found a better one:

On line 141 of modules/akismet/libs/akismet.class.php:

Code:

strToUpper($type)." /{$this-  >akismetVersion}/$path HTTP/1.1\r\n" .

replace this with

Code:

strToUpper($type)." /{$this-  >akismetVersion}/$path HTTP/1.0\r\n"

and that's it. How one character can make a world of difference.

It was tested on Bligg - burgerjournalistiek - artikelen delen en beoordelen and allowed us to keep the akismet module enabled.

In the hope that this can help others having similar problems. Our 2cents as thank you for developping pligg in the first place.
If found helpful, please include by default in the next version of pligg.

changing this does not affect the way Akismet works?

because on line 192 it says "var $akismetVersion = '1.1';" I don't know if this interferes with the change you made