Speed Optimization Testing

You can help us by testing and submitting the page load speed of Big Board's forum index page on your computer. Please do the test provided and fill out our load time speed survey. Your participation will help us in our efforts to optimize load time for BB users. There have been a wide disparity of page load times reported, and your responses can help us pinpoint the problems.

Please fill out the following template that appears in your "add reply" screen.

Your Speed (In Seconds): Use this website to determine your speed.
Insert http://bigboardsresources.com/ into the form.
Your Browser & Version: Your web browser and version.
How much RAM your computer has: In Windows Vista or XP, click the Windows key and Pause Break key at the same time. Alternatively, you can navigate yourself over to the panel in which you can find this information; Windows Vista how-to, Windows XP how-to. Mac how-to.
Type of Connection: Cable, dial-up, direct connection, DSL, ISDN, T1, or wireless.

As an example, my survey response would be:

Your Speed (In Seconds): 3.255
Your Browser & Version: Firefox 2.0
How much RAM your computer has: 894 MB
Type of Connection: DSL

Speed Optimization for Better Response Time

Resources

• Speed up Internet Explorer (Video How-To)
• Speed up Internet Explorer Through Internet Options (Video)
• Speed Up Firefox Through about:config
• Free Registry Cleaners (Note: There is a controversy over whether registry cleaners are an effective way to increase speed.)

User End Tips

• Don't have too many windows/tabs up at once (browser option).
• If JavaScript exceedingly slows down the page, disable it (browser option).
• If image viewing exceedingly slows down the page, disable image viewing (browser option) or disable viewing of avatars and signatures (board option).
• Use quick edit (board option).
• View Big Boards in archive mode (board option).
• Set fast reply to open automatically (board option).

Your Speed (In Seconds): 26.739 seconds (I know--it sucks)
Your Browser: FF2 (latest version)
How much RAM your computer has: 523.764 KB RAM
Type of Connection: RR Cable 7mbps (supposedly)

For some reason, my computer does not like BB's index page. It is the slowest loading page of any site I visit. Most other sites load for me in 3-5 seconds, 15 seconds at the most.

Seems to be a continuation of the IF curse on me that prevents me from using Mwr's MOT code or the portal on forum page code. :P

Had to vote for "It's very slow" :(

Your Speed (In Seconds): 2.641
Your Browser: IE7
How much RAM your computer has: 0.99GB
Type of Connection: DSL

Poor Helena. I'd be kicking my comp all over the place. :lol:

Your Speed (In Seconds): .407
Your Browser: FF2; Vista
How much RAM your computer has: 3006 MB
Type of Connection: T1

EDIT: Helena from your screen shots and your stats you've posted, I must say, your computer is ####. New one ftw.

OK...so the consensus is that I need a new computer....If I put a "buy me a new computer" donate button in my signature, who will volunteer to send me money? :D

Not me!

I'm very satisfied with the loading speed, although I can't give an exact speed, nor my internet connection and speed, because I don't know what they are <_>

I'd say the loading speed is about 3-4 seconds.. With Mozilla Firefox 2.0

Your Speed (In Seconds): 2 flat
Your Browser: Firefox FTW :D
How much RAM your computer has: 1024mb = 1 gb
Type of Connection: DSL

11.280
Firefox
1 gb
sat

I am not home so it is alot slower than normal but hey it works and faster than Helena :cold:

Mine loads in about 2seconds now :) Very happy with this.

Within this past week, we've removed quite a bit of JS that was slowing loading time, so the board should be loading faster now.

Cory is exploring some ways to compress the JS and defer loading on some codes, so if any of that is successful, we may be able to restore some of them.

Your Speed (In Seconds): 00:00:01:981
Your Browser & Version: FF (The Latest)
How much RAM your computer has: 3070MB
Type of Connection: Dunno - how do I find out? :nerd:

Your Speed (In Seconds): .407
Your Browser: FF2;
How much RAM your computer has: 3006 MB
Type of Connection: T1

Me & iBallin have same stats

Your Speed (In Seconds): 0.787
Your Browser: Firefox 2.0.0.14
How much RAM your computer has: 1 GB
Type of Connection: DSL

I personally think it's higher than average and I'm on a standard 2MB connection.

Your Speed (In Seconds): 1.228
Your Browser & Version: Firefox 3.0
How much RAM your computer has: 256 MB
Type of Connection: Unsure.

Your Speed (In Seconds): 1.180
Your Browser & Version: Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta
How much RAM your computer has: 1 Gig
Type of Connection: DSL

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I know this thread is for the board creation time , but can someone please ahve a look at how long it takes to open a page?

It's taking up to 2 minutes for me to open a thread to post.

I'd say that pretty slow

The slowness of the showtopic page is mainly caused by the credit code. If you access the showtopic page in IE, it will have to fully calculate every members credits in order to load, while on Firefox and other browsers it will load the page fully while calculating that data.

The showtopic page will likely load more smoothly once our new hosting plans are sorted out.

a way to do that is to get rid of all unecessary spaces...

it won't help that much, but, it can help...

as well as removing comments...

Your Speed (In Seconds): 11.365
Your Browser & Version: FireFox 3.0
How much RAM your computer has: 128 MB
Type of Connection: AOL Dial-Up
Speed: 428 MHz
Modem: 56K

also, you might want to add in how many mega/giga-hertz their computer has...

as that can greatly effect the speed of loading up web pages as well...

so can what kind of Modem they have...

like, the normal is 56K, but it can go up into the thousands...

I'm very satisfied with the loading times for BB.

Your Speed (In Seconds): 7.343
Your Browser & Version: Firefox 3.0.1
How much RAM your computer has: 2GB
Type of Connection: Dial-up
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

That's useless and doesn't matter that much to even make a difference.

Your Speed (In Seconds): 1:240
Your Browser & Version: Firefox 3.0.0
How much RAM your computer has: 2 GB (2038 MB) [I hope I converted that right, in vista it gave me my RAM in megs >_< )
Type of Connection: Cable

Your Speed (In Seconds): 2.1873 seconds
Your Browser & Version: Firefox 3
How much RAM your computer has: 6.00GB
Type of Connection: ADSL

Edit: It get's pretty slow sometimes. Once I've waited for like 6-7 seconds. :/
It's probably because of the credit code though.

Wow...only 6-7 seconds? lol...that's not slow at all, well maybe for your connection and computer but that really isn't that slow, and wow 6GB of RAM.... :O

Im very satisfied
BB Loads Instantly for me ;)

Yeah, my computer is pretty high-tech, but still. BB loads half way, then takes 3-4 seconds to load the other half. >.< The content always loads fine first, the rest takes ages to load, even when I'm just on the main page.

Sometimes it's fast though.

The board has sped up so much more now, it used to take roughly 30seconds, now it only takes a few.

The above stats were my old computer.... with half a gig of RAM and a pentium processor with service pack 4.


This is my NEW computer! :D

Your Speed (In Seconds): .7 seconds!!!!
Your Browser: IE7 (latest version-haven't downloaded FF3 yet))
How much RAM your computer has: 2GB RAM
Type of Connection: RR Cable 7mbps (supposedly)

*happy dances*


Edit: just tried it on FF3 and it's 1.5 seconds. I thought FF3 was supposed to be speeded up? hmmmm.

OK further set-up, and now I've even got all my graphic programs downloaded and 16 extensions installed, and times are:
.5 seconds for the index and .8 for the topic page. Not too shabby. :D

Helena has finally got herself a new PC, music please?

Your Speed (In Seconds): 2.288
Your Browser & Version: Safari
How much RAM your computer has: 1GB
Type of Connection: ADSL2+