XenForo Emoji Performance Optimization

Tamer submitted a new resource:

XenForo Emoji Performance Optimization - Eliminates JoyPixels CDN latency by serving emojis from your own domain via Cloudflare Workers.

This setup may look like overkill if the JoyPixels CDN already performs well for your audience. For us, it addressed a real, measurable latency issue in production, particularly on restricted corporate networks and slower connections.

Re-routing JoyPixels through CF Worker + Edge Cache​

If you’re using JoyPixels with Cloudflare, serving emojis through a Worker under your own domain is measurably faster and more reliable than hitting the JoyPixels CDN directly...

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Does anyone know if this works with the 2.2 versions?

Chris2 said:

Does anyone know if this works with the 2.2 versions?

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Hi,

It works on any XenForo version where you can set a custom emoji “Host from location” / base URL (including XF 2.2). The logic is entirely outside XenForo. Just make sure the JoyPixels asset path used in the Worker matches the emoji set/version your installation expects.

Tamer updated XenForo Emoji Performance Optimization with a new update entry:

Optional robots.txt rule for bot emoji crawling

Added an optional note about preventing non-indexing bots (e.g. OpenAI bots) from crawling emoji asset paths to reduce unnecessary log noise. Click here ↗

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