# Forum extremely slow lately **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [September 27, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939 "2026-09-27T23:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/thom_mcgrath/32/192_2.png) [@Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Thom_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/1 "2026-09-27T23:50:16Z")
I’m not sure how long it has been, but the forum is loading really slowly for me. Just over 5 seconds to receive the first byte, and an additional 2.5 seconds to finish loading. Total of 7.53 seconds for a page refresh. For a basic web request, that’s really bad. I’m guessing this is firewall related, as I can’t perform a good multi-location performance test. KeyCDN’s errors from all sites, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Tullin](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/jeff_tullin/32/693_2.png) [@Jeff\_Tullin](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Jeff_Tullin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/2 "2026-09-28T01:38:23Z")
same here ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_Clavey](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Marvin\_Clavey](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Marvin_Clavey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/3 "2026-09-28T02:26:56Z")
loads for me in 1 - 2 sec. ---
**Author:** ![Arnaud\_N](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/arnaud_n/32/21824_2.png) [@Arnaud\_N](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Arnaud_N)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/4 "2026-09-28T08:39:44Z")
I had the problem yesterday, too. But it seems back to normal now. ---
**Author:** ![Sascha\_S](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/sascha_s/32/22328_2.png) [@Sascha\_S](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Sascha_S)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/5 "2026-09-28T09:07:12Z")
Same here (Germany) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Hußmann](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/michael_hu%C3%9Fmann/32/438_2.png) [@Michael\_Hußmann](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Michael_Hu%C3%9Fmann)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/6 "2026-09-28T13:41:16Z")
Everything’s normal here, today as well as yesterday (can’t vouch for all of the day’s 24 hours in all the relevant time zones obviously so there may still have been a temporary problem that I just missed). ---
**Author:** ![Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/thom_mcgrath/32/192_2.png) [@Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Thom_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/7 "2026-09-28T14:17:13Z")
Yeah it’s feeling better now. I had an instance last night where it wouldn’t load at all, or at least not within 20ish seconds. I wonder if somebody tweaked something after I pointed it out. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_D](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/mike_d/32/266_2.png) [@Mike\_D](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Mike_D)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/8 "2026-09-28T18:50:50Z")
I just had a 30 second load. So not fixed fixed ---
**Author:** ![Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/thom_mcgrath/32/192_2.png) [@Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Thom_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/9 "2026-09-28T19:03:10Z")
Yep. Clicking “view reply” in my email to get here took longer than it should have. So nothing has been fixed or changed. Whatever is happening comes in waves. Maybe the forum is getting overloaded by AI bots? ---
**Author:** ![Gavin\_Smith](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/gavin_smith/32/13901_2.png) [@Gavin\_Smith](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Gavin_Smith)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/10 "2026-09-29T01:21:15Z")
They’re aware. It’s “AI indexing on and off”. Seems okay for me at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/thom_mcgrath/32/192_2.png) [@Thom\_McGrath](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Thom_McGrath)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/11 "2026-09-29T02:48:39Z")
> [@Thom\_McGrath](#): > > Maybe the forum is getting overloaded by AI bots? Yep, that was my second guess. AI ruins everything eventually. I’ve had to implement client verification on certain sections of my site to combat their nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_ROBISSON](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/thomas_robisson/32/15868_2.png) [@Thomas\_ROBISSON](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Thomas_ROBISSON)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/forum-extremely-slow-lately/88939/12 "2026-09-30T09:36:28Z")
My first come on the forum this morning was very long, more than 10 seconds to refresh the list, as long to open a topic and 20 seconds to make my first answer (on another topic). But it’s ok now (after 3 or 4 minutes), I’m writing this answer normally.