XF 2.1 My site has suddenly become very slow - I changed nothing.

[Hensmon]

Hey there. Recently members and admins have been complaining about site load time. This is the first time in 5 years of running the forum, yet I have made no updates or changes to the site in over 12 months. I was wondering if folks here could help me troubleshoot as to why that might be.

The forum is www.trancefix.nl

Thanks

 

[philmckrackon]

Loaded in less than a second (almost instantly) on every page for me. I was even using a VPN.

 

[briansol]

Slow here...

just going from .nl to .nl/index.php took a few seconds for the redirect to happen.

How are you doing the redirect? dns? htaccess or web/nginx.conf? cloudflare? with xf?

that might help diagnose where the delay is taking place.

 

[Alvin63]

Fairly quick when I tried. A second or two. The images load fractionally slower. Have you checked the first contentful paint load times on page speed insights? I managed to reduce mine by making home page images as webp.

It also shows diagnostics for various things that could be slowing down a site.

PageSpeed Insights

pagespeed.web.dev