I visit this and two other forums, on and off during a day and so have a means of comparison.
Overall this site has been pretty darned good but I do notice periodically that there is quite a delay while a server request is processed. Often there is a 10 sec delay or so before things appear but also it can stretch to 20 secs and more sometimes.
The good thing tho is, I can hardly think of any occasions when I get the ''Failure to connect to server'' result, after a 45 sec attempt, as happens on others sometimes.
So - pretty good overall and probably sometimes it is just heavy traffic on the server, which I am assuming is shared and not dedicated.
I did notice today, the ''image burden'' on the ''Outside my windows'' thread is up to 6Mb or so
- don't forget folks members like Brenden who are struggling on dial-up - and I doubt he can viably use that thread because of it. Reduce pics a bit in physical size and file size - it does speed up loading even for us with fast connections.
