Site Load Times

[SilverWarior]

After reviewin site statistics that AthenaOfDelphi shared with me it seems that main cause for slow loading of PGD are two bots which are causing huge trafic load out site. It is even posible that they are using most of the sites bandwich.
We were discusing about blocking these bots but unfortunatly this probably won't be an easy job.

[AthenaOfDelphi]

As I explained to Silver, I'm not in a position to do too much of anything on the site this week. I'll certainly be digging deeper into those stats at the weekend though. To put it into context, these two bots appear to have been responsible for something like 500K hits. This is a significant chunk of the 1400K hits the stats show as the total for this month.

This is clearly unacceptable, so I'm going to be doing something about it

As a side issue, the caching changes I made the other day to try and improve things have had to be taken off-line. They were causing major problems with the log in/log out process and effectively meant it was practically impossible to log off.

[User137]

After reviewin site statistics that AthenaOfDelphi shared with me it seems that main cause for slow loading of PGD are two bots which are causing huge trafic load out site. It is even posible that they are using most of the sites bandwich.
We were discusing about blocking these bots but unfortunatly this probably won't be an easy job.

Well, you have the bots IP so you can trace to their operator. They could be contacted to in order to make them stop.