Massive delays when loading certain pages

[DaveB]

Hi,

 

First post, this one. I know, a lot of people do first-posts asking questions and never return to read the answer or bother thanking people for their efforts. They suck, and I am not one of them, worry not. So if anyone has any multi-paragraph nuggets of awesome to share with me, your efforts really will be appreciated.

 

Anyway, I'm writing this because the forum on my website is ill, and I cannot work out what is wrong with it. Here's the link to an affected page -

 

http://www.yourlost.co.uk/forum/index.php?...amp;msg=10772.1

 

Now, I'm not sure whether this will load for you quickly the first time and quickly each time thereafter, or will load after an epic-long wait. It might even throw up a server error message. For me, and for a lot of the forum's members, it's either epic-long wait, or error message. And I can't work out why.

 

It did the same when I hosted the site under IIS7 with PHP5 and a dedicated install of whatever the latest verson of MySQL is. Having shifted the site over to the Uniform platform, the problem still remains. I'm stumped.

 

I suspect it could be a MySQL problem, since some forum threads load perfectly without fail, and others suffer. I've tried table repairs on the whole database, but to no avail. I can't think of anything else to try.

 

Can any of you fine folks suggest something that might help us out?

 

Cheers

[DannyH]

This is just a thought,

 

Have you got a Stat counter embedded in the page or any broken links that the site is looking for?

 

This can cause a slow page load

 

Danny

[Ric]

I tried a few links, and agree with Danny. It looks like the external links slowdown your pages.

 

In particular video links seem the worst.

 

I am not sure if frame sets exaggerate the problem.

 

All the best

Ric