Very good, I think, as it's way over my head, but it relieved my boredom for a moment.I haven't noticed any issues but in the community spirit and curiosity caused me to look a bit further into it. I wondered if I hadn't noticed because I may have been blocking anything with an add-on. First I compared this page to halfords.com both as a full reload in my usual laptop browser (Firefox) logged into forum as a supporter so no ads and it took this exact page took 2x as long and there is definitely a pause as mentioned by others but like I say I hadn't really noticed until I checked. I thought this may be influenced by whether there is some caching elsewhere that makes halfords.com quicker being a more popular (surely not) site, especially the front page. I use several browsers and normally use Firefox for most things including this site with various add-ons but Chrome for Netflix and the odd other thing and chromium for if I want to see a site plain and unfettered with no add-ons at all. In clean Chromium the load times for this Land Cruiser Club front page beats halfords.com and eurocarparts.com easily as an anonymous new visitor. However, if I dig deeper into the forums the pages can take as much as twice as long or more to load. So to me the question is how much of a difference is there between loading the front page of the forums and deeper posts. To me the most obvious thing would be the posts are way less likely to be cached on the server (or sercers in bewteen used by ISPs etc. Also there is likely to be more database work involved in grabbing those posts than the front page. So I then thought that this wasn't a very fair comparison either as we are not comparing like for like (a difficult challenge as nothing really compares to landcruiserclub.net). So I also looked at en.daihatsu-club.net daihatsu-drivers.uk (both quick and ad infested but very short threads - wife has Daihatsu) seatcupra.net (quick but a big club - I have one of the few remaining TDI SXs left from 1998) mumsnet.com (as probably one of the biggest forums - slightly quicker than LCC but much slower the older the forum threads I loaded - as a bloke I am not a mum) ih8mud.com (slippery quick even with really old obscure posts) tlocuk.co.uk (significantly quicker than mud except the first forum page which was oddly similar to LCC in speed) pradopoint.com.au (initial load about 40% slower than LCC but deep posts a similar speed although very fast on reload so some caching going on & most aussies kipping at the moment) and bigjimny.com (very quick even with old posts but then even a big Jimny is so lightweight it doesn't take much to accelerate it - daughter has one).
So what may be the issue here is that like some other forums there is a slow down particularly on less recently accessed posts which suggests that some form of forum caching or php or xenforum optimisations may help. To be fair some of the forums looked at above are much lighter weight with less features so not a fair comparison. It does appear though from a quick search there are quite a few tweaks than can be done to speed up the xenforum. Personally I am not familiar with xenforum although I have set up web servers with forum software in the past including simple machines, phpbb and vbullletin but these a a fair few years back. Hopefully this may help @Crispin to narrow down what might help as he will know what optimisations have already been made and can compare to the information out there about what else can be done.
Stay safe and thanks for making this a great community.
I've checked my wimwom and it's connected to the sprinklebonker DnD, now my speed is hypegiggling off the GPT output.Wonder if someone can check their browser network perf tab (should be in developer menu). And I also wonder if it's some ISP's blocking or DNS mangling enroute.
Is it just the first page download speeds that folks struggle with ? Or is it slow, and remains slow forever
Just do this and all will be fine.....I've checked my wimwom and it's connected to the sprinklebonker DnD, now my speed is hypegiggling off the GPT output, then adjust you wobblesprocket to mid point on the natter guage.Slow and remains slow forever + more
Birmingham screwdriver ? You are a bit behind times, they are now made in Taiwan
Yeh, made in Brum by Taiwanese, in little back street workshops.Birmingham screwdriver ? You are a bit behind times, they are now made in Taiwan
I know who Crispin is, but who is Hue? is he in Admin as well? Perhaps it's his fault some are having slow reload problems.I note the various comments about changes being made to the site, I too do not like change being a 'set in my ways' type of person but having be in IT for many years both from a user and an IT lecturer point of view I recognise the need for upgrades. The frustration that many are experiencing at present is something I put up with for months despite many attempts on both mine and Crispin's efforts to sort it, unfortunately we never did succeed and I did indeed end up using the site as little as possible, the upgrade has worked for me.
For me and I am guessing Crispin's as well, is the 'not knowing' what the problem is which is the most frustrating thing. I have over the years suffered diminishing levels of patience with everything not just the internet, so concede that at times I (you) have to give in and have patience.
On closing I will say that some people will never be happy.........now if we can do something about the nasty Red Crispin, perhaps a darker hue?
regards
Dave