Site Slow?

[Gareth]

Seems a lot quicker for me today

Edit : then immediately as if jinxed back to slow

[balloubaby]

Has been slow the last 3 weeks for me - thought it was my broadband but same on phone/laptop when out the house taking 10-15 seconds for a page to load. Thought I would chip in too but seems a wider problem. Anyone mods able to update on the reason or possible fix? As others have said - no complaints, just keen to keep on top of news quicker 

[mallo]

It's very slow for me too - 10-15 seconds. I'm analysing this thread with Claude - will post any findings

[mallo]

Server response time (TTFB) was ~21 seconds — the browser waited over 21s just to get the first byte back from the server, before it even started downloading images/scripts. Everything after that (images, theme files) loaded in a normal ~400ms each.

That rules out your connection, CSS/JS bloat, or images — this is 100% server-side: the PHP/database backend (SMF forum + Oracle/MySQL) is taking ~20s to generate the page, likely due to server load, a slow query, or resource contention on their host.

Nothing you can fix as a user — worth flagging to the mods with "page takes 20+ seconds to respond before anything loads" so they check server/DB load rather than assets or caching.

[UK Redsox]

There's gonna be hell to pay if someone famous dies and we can't start punning at normal speed

[martin@HandV]

As the sever host tech support is being as much use as a fart in a wetsuit, l am going to move the site to a new host, as soon as l get chance.