Very slow repsonse times

[dunkyl]

I haven't super into it yet, but I've been getting occasional long page load times, on the order of 5-10 seconds. For forums I consider this acceptable, but, if anyone else is experiencing it or had a suggestion, yea.

In both FF and Vivaldi, its just the initial index.php?blah that takes long, fonts and js and stuff all take milliseconds.

[Kett]

Oh that's odd. all the pages load near instantly for me, I wonder if anyone else has that problem but hasn't said anything...

[Kett]

Okay, update, I have been getting this every now and then too. I have noooo idea what's causing it. Will have to look into it a little deeper.

[dunkyl]

I did in the process of this find out that dark reader extension (which I only had installed for Ao3 and nothing else) was slightly contributing to slower initial render on all sites, on firefox. but was not the issue

[Kett]

This does look to be on the server side, specifically an issue with SMF. A thread I found, from 8 years ago, has a comment suggesting disabling an option for looking up hostnames. Not really sure if that'll fix it, but I gave it a try nonetheless. Let's see.

[dunkyl]

Seems better!

[Kett]

Yeah I really think that was it. It's recommended not to turn off that option due to moderation stuff, particularly ensuring IP banning is more effective, but there's only people I trust here so it's a non-issue.