Site Speed Test

[wickedstangs]

How can I tell if my site is slow or not? What sites do you all use?

I am on a Military computer at work and Xenforo is fast.. When I go to my site. It is slow as molasses, can someone let me know if my site is slow and also, can you let me know what issues, I have?

Greatly Appreciate it.

http://www.wickedstangs.com/community

 

[Deebs]

It is just about bearable for me from the UK. Painfully slow at times.

 

[RickM]

Loading fine here (north London) ok speeds too.

 

[AdamD]

I'd say it's decently fast, I'm in the UK, the main page on first load seemed to spring up in about 4ish seconds, but other bits were still loading around the 9 second mark

Forum tab, when clicked, took about 4 seconds in total.

The main page is rather heavy though, clocking in at 7.2mb, the forum is about 0.7mb

Good site for testing is - http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

 

[wickedstangs]

It is just about bearable for me from the UK. Painfully slow at times.

having same issues??

 

[MattW]

It's not too bad as well for me. You are showing a lot of people online for the total number of members your stats report

Online now: 1,806 (members: 1,632, guests: 174)
Members: 2,487

 

[Deebs]

I'd say it's decently fast, I'm in the UK, the main page on first load seemed to spring up in about 4ish seconds, but other bits were still loading around the 9 second mark

Forum tab, when clicked, took about 4 seconds in total.

The main page is rather heavy though, clocking in at 7.2mb, the forum is about 0.7mb

Good site for testing is - http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

4 seconds? Too slow.

 

[Deebs]

having same issues??

Same issues as what?

 

[AdamD]

For a site that's hosted in the USA and I'm in the UK, I'd say that's about normal for a first load of a site, subsequent loads/refreshes were a lot quicker.

I.E. Front page now loads in 3-4 seconds, due to caching
Forum tab now loads in 2-2.5 seconds.

 

[wickedstangs]

Same issues as what?

Painfully slow

 

[Deebs]

Painfully slow

Something has changed as it has just become usable FWIW, my tests were from BT Infinity2, can check tomorrow from Level3/Cogent when I am back at work?

 

[AdamD]

Who you hosting with Wicked? Knownhost? Is it a dedicated server?

 

[wickedstangs]

Who you hosting with Wicked? Knownhost? Is it a dedicated server?

Yes and Yes.. They moved me over to new and faster servers and been having this slow issue..

 

[AdamD]

Strange, for me, it's loading super quick now, I'm navigating through threads/forums pretty darn fast.

 

[wickedstangs]

Strange, for me, it's loading super quick now, I'm navigating through threads/forums pretty darn fast.

I think that is what is happening to me.. The minute I log on from work its super slow... When I am at home its fine sometimes..

 

[AdamD]

Ahh, what's the server load like? CPU/Disk IO and Ram?

 

[Deathjam]

your problem, at least on http://www.wickedstangs.com/community page is these 3 images

http://www.wickedstangs.com/community/attachments/p1040233-jpg.4928/
http://www.wickedstangs.com/community/attachments/p1040235-jpg.4929/
http://www.wickedstangs.com/community/attachments/p1040236-jpg.4930/

once i blocked those via adblock the page loads fine
waterfall = http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130221_70_117H/1/details/

 

[RickM]

What are your hosting specs? Could just be that apache needs tweaking a bit to sort out max server instances and connections. A few tweaks of your mysql config can sometimes help too.

 

[wickedstangs]

Did some changes to my server can you all check the speed again and tell me what you all think...

 

[melbo]

From US, first 2 seconds were blank page, then things started to load and finished to usable at around 6 seconds.