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Originally Posted by michelle86

I can change hosts to a dedicated server probably within the next year or so. So I really don't want to move everything to a new shared server if it would only be for a short amount of time. I'd like to see if there are any other options.

My forum home page is 101.93 kb. Big? How can I decrease it? I already have GZip HTML output enabled and compression set to 1.

That's not going to help. If your site is loading very slowly there's only two reasons why:

1. Client-side Issues
2. Server-side Issues

Examples of client-side issues: Slow internet, old browser, person is using Internet Explorer (just joking), too much javascript, flash, etc on the web page.

Examples of server-side issues: Database congestion (if one is being used), poorly configured settings (apache, mysql, php, etc), your host is throttling your connections (happens more often than you think).

102 kb is not big at all. There's no reason why it should take a modern user more than a second, maybe two, to load that.

Switch your hosts.