I paid alot for my Chevrolet and it's a piece of.....well.....nevermind.

I have been experiencing slow downs at my forums as well. I contacted our web hosting provider to try and figure out what was up.

He was get very fast load times. Which I suspected are because he is a guest and is not being logged in automatically.

So I logged out, closed my browser, reopened it and whet back to the main forums page. It loaded far faster than it was before.

I then logged back in and selected to have me logged back in automatically. Now when I close the browser, open it and come back to the forums it loads very fast.

Is if possible that something was cleared by my logging out and back in?

Looks like I spoke too soon. It is back up to the 16+ seconds to perform the SQL queries. However it does make a difference as to whether I am logged in or not. If not logged in and connecting as a guest it loads much faster than if I am being automatically logged in.

If you have a lot of unread posts and have full post tracking turned on where it displays the unread numbers in red, then this is probably contributing. If there are many of those then it really adds up in execution time.

What you can try do to see if that's part of the issue is Mark all Read while logged in and see how it goes then.

Could be a lot of things causing the slowdown.
Such as connection,Server issues
try searching here in advanced search.
Keyword slow
User Rick
In the date range jut blank out both of the fields.

There are lots of tips and clues for different issues that can cause the problem

Marking all topics as read did the trick. I just wanted to make sure our members where not experiencing the same slow down.

Thanks much.