Speeding up Forums

[schodet]

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I suppose we can call this slow...

My tips: open many page in several tabs, so that they are all loaded during the time you read the first page

[mattallen37]

I often use 10 or so tabs when on forums, especially slow ones. I usually open all the forums (in this case 5), and then open all the topics I want to, all in different tabs. Sometimes I have 15-20 tabs open.

[muntoo]

OK, on my Chrome6+AdBlock+5_other_plugins: less than 2 seconds.
I have Vista Home Premium (32-Bit), 1.8 GHz Intel Core Duo Processors, 1.5 Mbps Internet connection.

[HaWe]

with my IE 8 it's 5 seconds without being logged in and 15 sec when logged in,
with FF 8 seconds without being logged in and 25 sec when logged in

edit: annoying slow sometimes indeed. Reminds me of the old nxtasy forum.
The access to our mindstormsforum (.de / .com) is 10x faster most of the time.

[mattallen37]

My advice is to install Chrome, even if just for these forums. I don't think anyone on a modern computer will be limited to any specific browser, and as far as I know, Chrome will work on almost any computer that isn't really old.

[rebelego]

This forum is extremely slow. Doesn't seem to matter much which browser I use. Maybe a problem for those of us located in Europe?

[mightor]

I'm in the EU and it's fine for me.

- Xander

[nxtreme]

My advice is to install Chrome, even if just for these forums. I don't think anyone on a modern computer will be limited to any specific browser, and as far as I know, Chrome will work on almost any computer that isn't really old.

I installed Chrome on Ubuntu 9.10 as I don't quite want to "upgrade" in Windows yet and as FireFox+Ubuntu=Fail I decided I had nothing to lose. No improvement. I'm still getting around 12 seconds load time when I'm logged in. I think that "doc" might have something there with the logged in/not logged in load times. As I said before, I can live with it.

[schodet]

I think it also depends on the time of the day, and your definition of "fine". The sourceforge servers are really loaded, that's not something new and it is the only problem. Other servers are using 100 ms to 500 ms to produce the same result.

It also looks like using https makes a new connection for every objects of the page, making loading slower.

[HaWe]

I could just watch what really took the forum 10 sec to start:
waiting for googleads...