Same in Australia. It has been frustrating. Page loading times at least as slow as yours and Shoutbox is ridiculous. I’d been wondering same if it was just on my end. I’m using firefox but I don’t think it’s a browser issue.
The other day I has hanging around here and LMR had a slow reaction time. Hugo showed up to look for something and noticed it was really slow too. After slaying a spider, LMR was as fast as it had ever been, (although Hugo forgot what he was originally going to look up :P). Maybe they have returned?
In Shanghai the same, 20 seconds loading time till the page is done. I did not realize this because I am always pre-open some pages by hitting thre link with the middle mouse button to avoid waiting…now I did it the traditional way and saw the slow speed too.
We are so focused on v4, that we have not realized this, and I thought things where cool now. Personally my ISP has recently been purchased by another company, and in the transition phase everything is strange and slow, so I thought that was the reason.
And this time it’s a permanent solution! (not like last time wt thought we had it fixed and it turned out we just closed out most of our visitors - oops - the site went slow again when people returned)
This time we found the right things to optimize and itøs done. CPU on one server was always at 100% over several years… - it’s now relaxing at some 20-30 %.
That’s how it is when you have to do it yourself But we managed. Finally