Hi Yea,

Is there anyway we can increase the speed of our eblah forum? . our site is seems to be very slow now adays..
is there any tips that we can increase the speed??

our site link
http://www.kerala-malayalam.com/cgi-bin/4rum/Blah.pl?

E-Blah uses very little bandwidth and is unlikely that it is the software causing it.  I just accessed your site and the only thing that seemed slow was the Google adds which will slow the forum as they load before the messages. Any reason why you have two lots of Google adds at the top of every page?

Hey Martin,

Thanks for the Quick Reply . we do not have any special reason why we have 2 google ads on the top of the page . One is txt ad and the other is image ad. If that is the reason why it is slow , we may remove one ad code .
Thank you very much ..

Because that ad code is at the top of your template, the browser won't render the rest of the page until those ads have been served. Sometimes google can take a bit more time than you'd want.. Making the forum "hang" until the ads are served or the google server times out and the browser can then continue.

putting them at, or near the bottom of the page would be better id think, Not good for your CTR though I'd presume...  


You could also enable g-zip compression in settings, if your host supports it. But as martin pointed out, that won't help if its google holding you back... That usually is only good for speeding things up for people with very slow internet connections...

Hey Iconica
Thanks for your reply, Well, My host not supporting g-zip compression .and  we put the ad code near button and as well as on top because now a days  we are getting more clicks than before .we  reduced the board size and its helped a bit.

Thank you very much and have a good day
Cheers