I recently converted to Xenforo from VB3.8 (mid-may), a few people have mentioned the new forum is a tad slower although can't say I've noticed much difference myself. I checked Google's Webmaster Tools and page loading times have actually increased (see pic).
The forum traffic has slowed down recently although this is common as it's a Football Club fans forum and the season is over. We are averaging at least 65-75 people online between 9am and 10pm and peak at around 150 when a new player is linked to the club. When the season kicks off again we will be back up to at least around 120 people online most times, peaking at 350-450 during the match.
Obviously my main concern is will more traffic slow the site down even further once the season kicks off again.
I'm on a reseller shared host with Heart Internet, as far as I know the servers are in Nottingham which is only 15 miles away from the hometown of the clubs forum I run. As you can see from the graph page loading times were half what they were on vb3.8.
I was wondering if there is anything I could do that would speed up the loading times again?
Performance overview
On average, pages in your site take 4.0 seconds to load (updated on Jun 6, 2011). This is slower than 65% of sites. These estimates are of high accuracy (more than 1000 data points). The chart below shows how your site's average page load time has changed over the last few months. For your reference, it also shows the 20th percentile value across all sites, separating slow and fast load times.
The forum traffic has slowed down recently although this is common as it's a Football Club fans forum and the season is over. We are averaging at least 65-75 people online between 9am and 10pm and peak at around 150 when a new player is linked to the club. When the season kicks off again we will be back up to at least around 120 people online most times, peaking at 350-450 during the match.
Obviously my main concern is will more traffic slow the site down even further once the season kicks off again.
I'm on a reseller shared host with Heart Internet, as far as I know the servers are in Nottingham which is only 15 miles away from the hometown of the clubs forum I run. As you can see from the graph page loading times were half what they were on vb3.8.
I was wondering if there is anything I could do that would speed up the loading times again?