Dosenben, G’mornin from the states.

I was just looking at your site, seems to load pretty quick from here. Might want to go over to Pingdom and run a full page speed test. This way you can see the response time of different elements on your site.

Just a suggestion that has nothing to do with performance, go into your WordPress > Settings > Permalinks > and choose a different URL option. I use this structure: /%post_id%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

Best Wishes.

Doc

Hello Fido,

thanks for your reply! Out of curiosity: did you log in? As i mentioned; it loads completely fine when viewing as a guest; but once i’m logged in as any kind of user; it get’s bogged down somewhere.

Dosenben said

Hello Fido,

 

thanks for your reply! Out of curiosity: did you log in? As i mentioned; it loads completely fine when viewing as a guest; but once i’m logged in as any kind of user; it get’s bogged down somewhere.

Can’t read German, makes registration somewhat difficult. Email me a user id and password to fidosysop@gmail.com and i will poke around a bit.

Pingdom report looks pretty good as well.

wow again – thanks for the help here.
Just one thing to pick up on and that is that the permalink structure being used can have quite an impact on a site with a lot of pages. The default that you are using there is actually the fastest of course even if somewhat ugly and unhelpful. Some structures can be quite punishing on performance.

OK, It seems a little slower, but i would think acceptable, especially coming from Florida USA to your country.

Personally speaking from experience, I’m thinking your database is running slow. Is it possible for you to export your database and try hosting it elsewhere? I went that route once trying to diagnose a slow site hosted on #@%&* GoDaddy.com!

I did a screen video after being logged in and browsing a few pages, then logged out.

Hey Fido,

once again; thanks for your help; very much appreciated ! I’ll check out if we can use this solution – weird really; it almost takes 7 seconds for the complete forum view to show once i’m logged in. If logged out; it’s completely fine…

I’m open for any kind of idea what else might be causing this.

best regards,

Ben

Lets try a little experiment.

Export your database as a text file and zip it up. Email it to me, I will import it into a database i have access to that allows external connections. I will then if successful doing the import, will email you back a db url, name and password.

Just change your wp-config.php details and see if it works, and if so, is it better or worse.

Sure worth a try.

Doc

I know you said at the top that see a lag for all users bit can you confirm that is definitely the case. is there no difference between an SP Admin and an ordinary member?

Yellow Swordfish said
I know you said at the top that see a lag for all users bit can you confirm that is definitely the case. is there no difference between an SP Admin and an ordinary member?

It is definitely somewhat lagging when i logged in. Takes a few seconds for the forum pages, after the header, to load fully. I didn’t notice that before logging in. And i have never experienced that with multiple sp installs.

Yellow Swordfish said
I know you said at the top that see a lag for all users bit can you confirm that is definitely the case. is there no difference between an SP Admin and an ordinary member?

Hello Andy,

yup – massive lagging as soon as logged in, even with a completely fresh user account; doesn’t change noticeably from being logged in as admin. Lightning fast when visiting as guest. We’re just doing an alternate WP / SP install…

oh, btw; administering the database from mysql – admin is completely okay; fast reaction time so far.

Wow – so I am only seeing it as a guest but I am pretty amazed at how fast it loads with 297 forums to check!

The main difference between a Guest and a Member when loading is probably going to be down to checking and building the new/unread post lists for that user. If, when you first log in and load a page and then immediately load a different page (quickly) does the second page load noticeably faster?

Those forums are loaded up too, more content than i ever had on one of mine.

Looks like 19 users online now. Is your site locked down to keep the spam bots at bay? Those parasites will suck your resources up something fierce. I use this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/ It has blocked 4581 access attempts in the last 7 days. on FidoSysop.org

I think it’s possible you have a slew of spam bots trying to register on your forums, could explain the lag time i would think. On top of that if your using Akismet it’s using a lot of resources keeping these parasites at bay.

Yellow Swordfish said
Wow – so I am only seeing it as a guest but I am pretty amazed at how fast it loads with 297 forums to check!

The main difference between a Guest and a Member when loading is probably going to be down to checking and building the new/unread post lists for that user. If, when you first log in and load a page and then immediately load a different page (quickly) does the second page load noticeably faster?

Just tried that out – no, there’s no real difference in speed; at least to my eye. Once logged in; everything loads desperately slow.

FidoSysop said
Those forums are loaded up too, more content than i ever had on one of mine.

Looks like 19 users online now. Is your site locked down to keep the spam bots at bay? Those parasites will suck your resources up something fierce. I use this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/ It has blocked 4581 access attempts in the last 7 days. on FidoSysop.org

I think it’s possible you have a slew of spam bots trying to register on your forums, could explain the lag time i would think. On top of that if your using Akismet it’s using a lot of resources keeping these parasites at bay.

The userbase is composed of a peculiar bunch of hobbyists. No; Akismet is taken out.

Sorry – I should have also asked – what version of SP is this?