Duplicate Waiting for the forum to load

[Astra]

Affected version

2.3.0

After the update, the forum began to load with a wait of 2-4 seconds, the debugger in Safari shows that there are errors.

And as always, a very old version error PHP



Who can tell me how to treat?

Maybe my PHP is configured incorrectly?

 

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

Will you show us your forum URL so that we can take a look at the load time?

 

[Astra]

Will you show us your forum URL so that we can take a look at the load time?

Yes, sure.


Before installation, all addons were disabled, as they are now disabled.
Before the update, the forum opened instantly, there were no delays, now it’s from 2 to 8 seconds.

 

[Paul B]

The site loads within 1 second for me.

Does it load faster as a guest compared to when logged in?

 

[Astra]

For both the guest and the Administrator, everything is the same with a delay that did not exist before.



When you press the button to log out of your account, the delay is even longer, 4 seconds.

 

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

I'm able to reproduce the slow load on Astra's forum as well.



and when I hit refresh.



I wonder why when I load my own forum it says service worker and 0ms waiting.

 

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

Astra, have you looked into your hosting provider? Is it possible you have used up all your monthly cpu credits during the upgrade process and now your hosting account is set to a slow lane?

 

[Astra]

Thanks, I'll take a look now. But the fact is that this started immediately after installing the new version.

 

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

Yeah, that's why Im wondering if the upgrade process used 100% cpu and used up some monthly allotment of cpu time or something.

I'm not sure if you have a panel that shows the CPU usage of your server.

Additionally, you should get cloudflare in front of your forum so it can cache static assets and reduce load on the webserver.

This addon is very useful. https://xenforo.com/community/resources/digitalpoint-app-for-cloudflare-r.8750/

 

[Chromaniac]

For me, time to first byte is definitely messed up. It takes a second or two to actually do something but the website itself loads pretty fast once the process starts. I can never tell why it is happening and how to fix it on my own board. Usually a caching component comes handy. Could be due to routing. But do change the png background image to webp or even avif to basically reduce the page size.

 

[Astra]

All this is of course very interesting.
But there is one point, before installing 2.3.0 everything worked perfectly, at high speed, there were no delays.
And I think if I could do a rollback, then everything would work quickly again and there would be no errors. Therefore, I still think that these are update errors that exist at the moment and that need to be corrected.

I also want to note how many years I’ve been on Xenforo, this is the crudest update of all the previously released ones, because there have never been so many errors before.

I'm not sure if you have a panel that shows the CPU usage of your server.

 

[Chromaniac]

It does perform very well on Google Pagespeed with low TTFB.

I can only assume this is a routing issue that shouldn't have been caused by 2.3 update. But assuming you have a backup, you can always test it out and see if the problems disappear on restoring a backup somewhere.

 

[James]

All this is of course very interesting.
But there is one point, before installing 2.3.0 everything worked perfectly, at high speed, there were no delays.
And I think if I could do a rollback, then everything would work quickly again and there would be no errors. Therefore, I still think that these are update errors that exist at the moment and that need to be corrected.

I also want to note how many years I’ve been on Xenforo, this is the crudest update of all the previously released ones, because there have never been so many errors before.

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Yeah looks like your host is throttling you.

 

[Astra]

For me, time to first byte is definitely messed up. It takes a second or two to actually do something but the website itself loads pretty fast once the process starts. I can never tell why it is happening and how to fix it on my own board. Usually a caching component comes handy. Could be due to routing. But do change the png background image to webp or even avif to basically reduce the page size.

I just deleted the forum header temporarily to see if the delay goes away. No, nothing has changed, everything is the same 2-4 seconds.

Yeah looks like your host is throttling you.

It's time to move to the VPS server.
That's what I'm doing today... studying control panels.

Thanks friends for your comments.

They did a great job; when you respond to a message, you are redirected to the middle or top of the page. This is amazing

 

[Chromaniac]

yeah, it was just a regular recommendation as you can easily replace the png with webp at fraction of the size... it is not causing the initial delay.

 

[Astra]

yeah, it was just a regular recommendation as you can easily replace the png with webp at fraction of the size... it is not causing the initial delay.

I often optimized photos on the forum with imageoptim. All the photos I inserted are optimized by this program and become almost 50% smaller. After launching optimization, many photos, with a limit of 200 kb on the forum when uploading, began to weigh 300. So in some cases the new format is good, but if the image was previously optimized, it can become even larger.

 

[Astra]

I don’t know if I’m right or wrong, but I went to the PHP selector and started disabling extensions. As a result, the error disappeared and the site began to open much faster. Perhaps this will help someone. It’s a pity that the developers don’t give us answers about which extensions are needed and which are not, and maybe some extensions may conflict.

 

[Jeremy P]

Likely this: https://xenforo.com/community/threa...ntitles-are-slows-down-the-site-a-lot.222725/

The new behaviors depend on the intl extension, so disabling that may have helped.

 

[avalanch]

Likely this: https://xenforo.com/community/threa...ntitles-are-slows-down-the-site-a-lot.222725/

The new behaviors depend on the intl extension, so disabling that may have helped.

That made a huge difference for me, disabling the intl extension. Full page load in 969 ms.

GTmetrix Performance Report

GTmetrix Grade: A (Performance: 100% / Structure: 97%)

gtmetrix.com

 

[Jeremy P]

Going to close this out as a duplicate then unless there is something to substantiate it being a distinct issue.