Does this make sense?

[Lionel]

I have been watching this for a while now. On my website, when I click on a link sometimes it will take a long time to open (as much as 20 seconds), as if the server did not register the request.

When I click on the same link twice, within a fraction of a second apart, it will open fast as supposed to (0.30 second).

Any which way I look at it, I am puzzled and am wondering what could affect that?

Has anyone else experienced such odd behavior on their sites or other sites?

[Jaynesh]

Does this happen only to you or everyone?

If you have access to another computer, try it on there to see if happens.

It happens to me aswell, when i click on the link it wont load so i have to click on it again. I think its a problem with my internet connection or computer.

[KTBleeding]

This is probably a long ways off.. but how long ago did you restart your computer? I've run into similar issues where a simple reboot fixed it just fine.

But maybe you need a new mouse? I had the exact same issue about a month ago.. swapped my mouse with a new one and the problem was solved.

[Princeton]

It's hard to tell.
It could be anything...
- your server (high load)
- settings are not optimized
- multiple custom scripts running (not optimized)
- a bad script
- or, it could be the initial load of the site (into memory, etc) ...

if the "page generated" is low, it is 100% related to your own connection, as the page generation take no consideration that you are on the planet or in space...

[Brad]

It could also be your datacenter's connection to the internet. As you can see this depends on so many things.

Do a large number of users at your forum have the same problem?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Or external images included in that post that take a long time to load.

[Lionel]

I don't have any external images and so far no one else has complained to me. I changed some code from $_get into $_Request and that seems to help a little.

I had rebooted PC and server.

Mouse is out of question as this seems to happen only on my site.

Load on server varies between 0 and 1.0

Sometimes when I do not double click and wait, it will say 20 seconds with a load of .30

Brad can you elaborate on the datacenter suggestion?