Mahray, just my opinion, but I think this is a widespread problem that has been going on to varying degrees of severity for many, many months...including a "long enough" time since the majority of the php conversion has been in place. It's NOT just a few people experiencing problems that the sort of diagnostic you're suggesting would determine much.

If, for example, I go to this site and pages take up to a minute to load and then go to 5 other sites using the same browser and the same connection and all of those sites' pages open up "lightning fast," it seems pretty clear what the source of the problem is...to my logic at least. I've experienced this exact set of circumstances time and again...and dozens & dozens (hundreds & hundreds ??) of other members have reported the same thing.

Most people just aren't complainers or they've given up complaining about it. Still, this has been talked about in probably a hundred different forum threads here over the past several months...I don't know what it would take to fix the problem...more & faster server capacity comes to mind as one possibility.

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