Why is this site so slow?

It's not slow, I posted this yesterday!

Posting to forum still slow this morning.

WOW and all these time I suspected my internet provider is doing something to slow me down.

Well now I know its not just me. Please if you have these kind of problems in the future posted it on your front page so we know and not wait for ages to load. We can always come back another time!

Still horrible tonight.

I could be wrong, but I suspect that something being loaded in the head section of the code is delaying the page rendering - most likely some poorly written advertising or analytics. Pages download almost instantly when I'm pulling down just the html for my feed reader to parse.

miles better this morning

It's been terrible since yesterday morning. I'm glad its not just me.

Have you tried feeding the hamster?

Have now taken to opening road.cc in a separate window and dipping in & out. Serious 'new Brookes saddle' levels of pain if trying to access on a mobile device though.

in the meantime, like others have said, logging out speeds things up considerably but obviously you can't comment then.

yup, we're still having problems and we're working to resolve them. i'll update this thread with any progress.

54Mbps download speed and still 5 mins to load the site!

It has taken me over 3 hours just to get on the forum

road.cc has been very slow to access for a few days now. From multiple clients. Seems to take a long time to find the road.cc home page, sometimes even times out.

Yes it has been slow, also I don't know if you run 2 or more servers but I've notice replication issues with user post when viewing on my mac then 10 min later on my phone, same story but comments are missing. But I'm not logged in on my phone so it might be that.

On the plus side, I've practically given up visiting this site over the last few days - as a result my work productivity has massively increased.

Please install Varnish on the server.

I have a ZTE Kis (admittedly, a barely-smartphone), but I find that out of the blogs and news sites I look at, road.cc makes the browser on it crash about half the time. I have to wait while it loads up every single ad and image, and then make sure no other images have loaded, then cross my fingers to start actually reading/scrolling down the page.

Admins - do you have or are you considering a mobile-friendly version of road.cc?

Can confirm. Logged out and all is good. Log back in .... slow as a dog.

Here are some reasons:

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/road.cc/THZIYvZA

The site coding and hosting setup is significantly lacking in 'stuff' that speeds things up...

Looking at the waterfall chart, some obvious fixes, like speeding up the connection to the /buynow/ image directory and the /theme/ images...

What annoys me more is the way the text gets chopped off down one side of column. Then on odd occasion it's fine, what is that all about. I have tried several browser s. They all do it. It works fine on my laptop. But most of my browsing is on my mobile phone, Note 3

nowt to do with FC, that's on an entirely different server. we are having some issues though, which we're working through at the moment

Does seem slower than normal. Maybe because fantasy cycling has just started!

Hmmmm… might not just be the Home Page, that last post took forever to load