Site Load Times

[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...

[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.