Speed Test?
 

My site only has 38 members and of those there are really only 1-3 people on at a time, including guests. Yet when I go to my site it generally takes about 5-8 seconds just to load the front page. I have a few hacks installed but nothing I would think could slow it down that much. If you could go to my site and tell me what you think www.theholonet.net. I am on a shared hosting plan, but would that make a huge difference? I know it would if there are alot of sites sharing but this is bad. It even takes long just to follow a link from my navbar and back home. Is it my site, my style, my hacks, my hosting? Also is there a way to check the speed at which it is loading and compare to something that will give me a better idea at how fast it should be loading?

Any help or comments are greatly appreciated:)

I cant even get on your site.

Try turning on debug mode, at the bottom will be a part that says queries executed, time to execute, and server load. If you can copy / paste this here that will help.

Also, what hacks are you running and who are you hosted with?

Lastly, you can create a "default" style and try browsing around with that to see if thats possibly an issue.

It could be the shoutbox

Ok this is the debug just loading the first page:

Memory Usage: 3,935KB, Executed 23 Queries
Page Generated in 14.96 Seconds

Template Usage

adv_gallery_imagebit (3)
adv_portal (1)
adv_portal_banners (1)
adv_portal_donate (1)
adv_portal_ecdownloads (1)
adv_portal_footer (1)
adv_portal_forumlist (1)
adv_portal_latestthreads_head (1)
adv_portal_latesttopicbits (10)
adv_portal_module_shell (13)
adv_portal_newsbits (3)
adv_portal_onlineusers (1)
adv_portal_poll (1)
adv_portal_pollresult (3)
adv_portal_stats (1)
adv_portal_vbgallery (1)
adv_portal_vbgallery_nav (1)
adv_portal_vbgallery_newestbits (10)
adv_portal_vbshout (1)
calendar_smallmonth_day (31)
calendar_smallmonth_day_other (4)
calendar_smallmonth_header (1)
calendar_smallmonth_week (5)
downloads_panel_bit (12)
footer (2)
forumhome_loggedinuser (1)
gobutton (1)
header (1)
headinclude (1)
navbar (1)
navbar2 (1)
option (2)
spacer_close (1)
spacer_open (1)
threadbit_pagelink (5)
welcome_headers (1)

Hacks I run are, vBa Gallery, Ibp Arcade, vB Journals, Links and Downloads (dont use the download part), vB Adv CMPS, PayPal Donations, ecDownloads, vBShout, and Welcome Headers.

I'm hosted with 1and1.com

*EDIT*
Just noticed when looking at my control panel at 1and1.com that the dB I use for my forum is unavailable, yet I can still access my site and move around. This slow problem has been going on for about a month and I do remember seeing that "unavailable" once before but it went back to available when I refreshed. I tried to call 1and1 and they said they were experiencing a high call volume and told me to call back later and hung up on me :angry:

The query count isn't bad ... yeah I think you will need to talk to 1and1 and see what they say.

Are you still having this problem? I think I may be able to help you. Send me a PM.

I emailed my host and it is running 100% faster now. Is there something more I can do?

heres a site you can try


http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

Synth,

One other thing you might do is update CMPS to the newer 2.1.0 version. The new version added several new options to better take advantage of a sites cache when pulling the threads for the front page.

EDIT: For those interested, here's the list of new features... ;)

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14284

Awsome thanks..didn't know there was an update! LOL

Just added some CinVin styles and I'm loving them;)