BeautifulForums loading speed?

[alakazam]

Can you guys tell me how fast BeautifulForums loads for you? It loads quite fast for me, and none of my members complain about any speed issues, but I was just told this in the post exchange area:



and I'm quite confused at the moment.

 

[MasterA]

It is loading a little bit slow for me although it is still usable. It takes around 5 seconds to load each page for me.

 

[DudeThatsErin]

Try removing some of the stuff you have on the front page. It is really cluttered. Maybe the images would help, especially the slower connections.

 

[alakazam]

Well, this is quite strange. Look how fast it is loading for me:

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My admins say it's loading really fast. I've asked people from Europe, America and Australia, and all of them said that it's one of the fastest forums they know.

I'm literally speechless right now.

 

[Reverse Flash]

It's quite fast for me. No issues. The guy in the post exchange thread must have problems on his end.

 

[Allenafaith]

It took a few seconds to load when I first clicked the link, but it seems to be running very quick after that.

 

[Cierra]

It loads with a little delay but after that it's fine.

 

[pandaa]

It loads pretty slow for me, probably around 3 second before anything pops up. I've got pretty fast internet, and I'm in America if that helps. I'd try going over to Pingdom and using their tools to see where they think you can improve things. 🙂

 

[Thomasss]

It loads pretty fast for me. 🙂 I don't notice any kind of delay and I have pretty fast internet.

Agreed with pandaa though, Pingdom is pretty awesome and their tools are pretty helpful. I currently use Pingdom and the only complaint I have is how many upgrades and stuff they have. 😛

 

[xpl0iter]

I think the website loads in like 5 seconds for the first time and then much faster, at around 2 seconds! If you are really concerned on the first time loading speed, better change to a cloud hosting with SSD. That will boost your first time loading speed. It is not really pricey anymore! 🙂

Anyway 5 seconds to load a forum with all those contents is not too bad to be frank!

Includes 1st and 2nd fetch: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/150630_AN_B0S/

1st attempt: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cvmInP/ ... forums.co/
2nd attempt: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/bQ9Iv8/ ... forums.co/

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.beautif ... o/RsL0yedh

 

[Chris K]

It loaded fairly slow for me, but nothing that would turn me off from your community or see it has a big issue.

Here is the results I got from Pingdom.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/t7jht/h ... forums.co/

It took 4.75s to fully load.

A tip for faster load time, eliminate as many images used for your theme as you can. This will improve your load speed quite a bit.

 

[Ashley z]

10 seconds for index page's title to load on my browser bar.
13 seconds for the page to actually load.
20 seconds for the favicon to load.

You can use CloudFlare to speed up your site's speeds. It especially helps with return visitors not taking up too much server resources.

I have around 70-100 MBps download speeds and 50-60 MBps upload speeds, so most things load instantaneously for me.

 

[ddoesmc]

The web always load instantly for me. Your home page takes about 5 seconds.

 

[Ashley z]

The web always load instantly for me. Your home page takes about 5 seconds.

As I posted above, same thing is happening to me. After loading the site the first time though the speeds were a bit better.

 

[Stalin]

takes 9 seconds to load fully for me. That is quite slow.

 

[Sharon]

It seems to load fine for me.

 

[Thomasss]

Moved to our solved archive since there hasn't been a reply for just nearly a month, feel free to create another topic for site speed reviews! 😀