How fast is the site loading for you?

[Anxiety]

Just need to see how many users are struggling with forum speed. It might just be me.

 

[Wiggles]

5 trials.

all homepage loads.

4.56 seconds
14.5 seconds
12.3 seconds
3.87 seconds
8.73 seconds

 

[Alex H.]

Pinging marketforums.org [174.120.106.90] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 174.120.106.90: bytes=32 time=136ms TTL=52
Reply from 174.120.106.90: bytes=32 time=137ms TTL=52
Reply from 174.120.106.90: bytes=32 time=136ms TTL=52
Reply from 174.120.106.90: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 174.120.106.90:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 136ms, Maximum = 138ms, Average = 136ms

 

[Anxiety]

Sort of encouraging. Will have to speak to host providers to see why we've slowed down. Obviously because we've grown in size, but still.

 

[rampage2gene]

Dude it's taking a little long because of the images, i learned that a long time ago, but the speed is more or less good.

 

[Anxiety]

It's not because of the images. I might have to install PHP SOAP Extention to lessen the load of our PHP files. But that's complicated.

 

[LMCampbell]

It's not because of the images. I might have to install PHP SOAP Extention to lessen the load of our PHP files. But that's complicated.

We could just lesson the amount of access bots have to only the necessary files.
Like the thread.php, index.php, post.php and not much else.

(I don't know the actual names of them, but I think it's close to that.)
That would lesson the load abit.

 

[Anxiety]

Even if we did do that Campbell it wouldn't make much of a difference. It's not that that's making the site performance decrease, it's the size I think. The size of the database, the image load, the post per day load etc. I'm pretty sure of it. I've been recommended to get a VPS as a different alternative, but I'd need a big donation drive for that to happen.

 

[LMCampbell]

Even if we did do that Campbell it wouldn't make much of a difference. It's not that that's making the site performance decrease, it's the size I think. The size of the database, the image load, the post per day load etc. I'm pretty sure of it. I've been recommended to get a VPS as a different alternative, but I'd need a big donation drive for that to happen.

Fair enough.
I haven't checked the Cpanel to see which it is.
We could always do a prune to decrease the size in the Member database.

 

[Anxiety]

But 600+ members shouldn't really hurt our database much. It's the posts and views of threads (which is a lot in our case) that input the heavy load.

 

[Flow'n]

Its pretty slow for me but it might because server is in UK and I'm in the far west of US.

 

[Anxiety]

Shouldn't really make a difference. How slow is slow for you?

 

[Wiggles]

Its pretty slow for me but it might because server is in UK and I'm in the far west of US.

That shold not play a major role in much.

I live in central US and I can connect to datacneters in AU in 160MS.