This was info from my yesterday early morning activity trying to get into and going through the site:
SB was super slow from 5:30-7:00am this morning (Saturday 6/8). I timed different actions, from initial loading the main forum page (not signed in), to logging in, switch forums and attempting to post.
On average each task took from 1 minute 45 seconds to 2 minutes for each activity. Even just clicking the back button to return to a forum from reading a post. Didn't get better until just after 7am, when all of a sudden things sped up to normal page load times of a second or 2.
Member count when first signing in was "2" and guest count just over 300. Up until 7am members on line was rarely more than 6-7, but guest counts often close to 500.
After 7, members at one point was 12 with guest counts still above 300.
Really can get frustrating and wonder if that has to do with fewer members being less active?
This morning it has been better, but still fluctuates at times from regular quick transitions to several second delays. One added thing for yesterday. When I first tried to bring up the SB Main Forum Page, it would not load at all, even after 5 minutes. I clicked on the Stovebolt.com home page and that took more than 2 minutes, then another 2 plus minutes to get to the main forums page. This was even after clearing all my cookies and deleting web history too. I also tried to use both Firefox (my default browser) and Google Chrome with no difference in either browser.
One other note, not knowing if it has any bearing on the problem or not. During the page loading delays yesterday, in every instance the picture in the "News Corner" was always the last thing to load/display with each page change. It seemed to take forever to finish.
PS - I've seen a few older threads with weird characters cropping up again while searching for previous threads.
