Hello,
Here is the page that is being reported as slow: it is the "Today's Active Topics" page (where does this appear<?>)...

Could you advise what the issue may be...


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This is for page
http://www.dancescape.com//ubbthrea...=Entire+Phrase&Old=1day&Limit=50
(i.e., the "Today's Active Topics" page)

Machine: Mac PowerBook G4 running Mac OSX 10.2.8
Internet Connection: High-speed (T-1 equivalent) dedicated DSL with
a static IP address

Using Mozilla 1.5 at 9:12am Pacific, Thurs. Dec. 11:
Generated in 24.499 seconds in which 23.369 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

Using Mozilla 1.5 at 9:13am:
Generated in 23.577 seconds in which 22.281 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

At 9:15am, using Internet Explorer 5.2:
Generated in 25.382 seconds in which 23.136 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

At 9:25am, using Internet Explorer 5.2:
Generated in 27.621 seconds in which 24.422 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

At 9:30am, using Safari 1.0.1:
Generated in 27.694 seconds in which 25.246 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

At 9:32am, using Safari 1.0.1:
Generated in 24.555 seconds in which 23.651 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

At 9:42am, using Lynx 2.8.4 on FreeBSD on a box at a major colo so it has better-than-T1-speed
Generated in 35.522 seconds in which 33.922 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

At 9:44am, using Lynx 2.8.4 on FreeBSD on a box at a major colo so it has better-than-T1-speed
Generated in 25.288 seconds in which 24.152 seconds were spent on a total of 4 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

Note that when using Lynx I get a message saying "stalled for 24 seconds" while downloading this page.

Other pages -- such as this one -- are pretty much instantaneous:
(At 9:51am) Generated in 2.99 seconds in which 0.147 seconds were spent on a total of 13 queries. Zlib compression disabled.