Forum background photo?

It is interesting, but it seems to drag down the loading of the forum pages. On my iPad, it displays the photo then the page on top of it. Something has changed?

Nothing has changed, but something to be aware.  The host is in France.  I see from time to time (servimg) the image host for the host does have slowdowns that I do see from time to time.  I have seen them a couple times this week.  I also wonder if server backups (after hours for the host) are prime time for us.

I'll monitor.

I have encountered weird issues with it as well.
Seems to not work properly all the time.

Ian in Israel and France isn't so far.. just have the same issues aswell

@mightyraze

I wonder if you could remove the background photo and see if that changes anything? It seems that the background photo is the culprit from what I can see.

**REMOVED**

Strangely enough... without the background, Now I have a loading hiccup?  Go figure.

First a hiccup then it keeps resizing the forum on me for about 5 seconds before settling.

bear with me, I am doing some statistics.

With the backgrond and the Javascript header:

Using Pingdome from California host:

Performance was a D by their site. 65%
Page size was 7.2 MB
Load time was 4.26 Seconds
w/ 316 page requests. (not sure how to lower this)

Without the background and javaheader  turned off.

Performance was still a D at 65%
Page size was 6.4MB (reduction of 700K)
Load time was 4.16 Seconds.  Only 0.1 second faster
w/ 316 page requests still.

With or without the background, the difference is microscopic.

I'll leave the Wallpaper off for now.

another test from dotcom-tools

Location	Performance	Full Page Load	First Meaningful Paint	Network	DOM Complete	Page Size
Seattle	Slow	4.50 s	2.80 s	4.75 s	4.40 s	2.2 MB
Dallas	Slow	50.98 s	3.10 s	50.70 s	50.64 s	2.9 MB
New York	Slow	10.73 s	2.60 s	9.02 s	10.35 s	3.0 MB

This test was "without the wallpaper"

2 things jump out at me.  Depending on where you are located, the speed could be all over the place.  Another thing that gets me is why the page size is different from site to site. Granted, this is as a guest so there are ads.

I have Starlink internet and it is VERY fast. The page loads almost instantly now. Thanks for the test. I loaded several forum pages and they all ‘pop’ now.

Except… more testing shows oddities still. This is no big deal, but very strange for a forum, IMO. Not sure what is going on.

Loading a page produces four distinct events:

1. The page header appears
2. The page contents appear
3. The page jumps down (maybe to the last read post?)
And, if the page is long,
4. The page jumps to the most recent post.

Again, no biggie, just unusual.

I'll reset the site's wallpaper from 12 years ago tomorrow.

I updated my post above yours. Something is different still. Maybe it is the server doing it all.

I'll check forumotion to see if they are saying anything.

Well tbh the forum is much more readable and faster on my end

Works about the same as always on my end also. I'm not saying this is necessarily what's going on but I was reading an article the other day that was talking about how scientists have found a way to utilize the undersea fiber optic internet cables to detect seismic events under the seas/oceans but to better pinpoint actual locations they need to install more modules along the line.

It is probably a result of insufficient oil pipelines from Canada. Eh?

MightyRaze wrote:

I blame the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard Defamation Trial.


LOL

Curse them for stealing all the bandwidth! Lol