Site Load Times

[dj_sharp]

I did not attach images to forum message because forum engine resizes my images to smaller size, so they become unreadable
http://hinst.noip.me/Screen/PGD_TEST_01.png
http://hinst.noip.me/Screen/PGD_TEST_02.png
http://hinst.noip.me/Screen/PGD_TEST_03.png

[User137]

I don't even remember last occasion that the site would have felt slow.

[Legolas]

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140518_E0_7AJ/

The website definitely needs some (easy to do) optimization:
http://www.webpagetest.org/performan...run=1&cached=0

IMHO a CDN for the static content and using gzip could be a good idea

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Thanks for all the feedback guys, when I'm done with my final assignments/exams in a week or two, I'll look into this in more detail. There are a number of tweaks we can make to the site that may have an impact on performance, so I'll look into those as well.

[code_glitch]

Don't mean to revive a dead thread but just wanted to let you guys know PGDs been gradually slowing down over the past couple of days for me when everything else has a ping of 10-15ms for me to the point I'm now getting a couple 503s loading the front page...

[SilverWarior]

I have also encountered some dificulties today with opening PGD page. But I thought they might be related to some problems with ms ISP. I gues the problem might reside elswhere

[dj_sharp]

better slower but stable than faster and unstable & buggy if you ask me

[Mirage]

15 seconds is too much. Hosting provider definitely has problems.
timing.jpg

[AthenaOfDelphi]

I've banned three 32 address netblocks... all registered to the ahrefs bot and all operating from the softlayer.com cloud service. Hopefully that will greatly reduce the server load.

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Server load has been greatly reduced. We were consistently being restricted... that no longer appears to be the case. I am finding the site more responsive and less prone to big long pauses when I start surfing it. Please let me know how you're finding it.

Thanks