Slowdown on homepage

It seems something, likely vbseo is seriously slowing down my homepage on www.talkjesus.com

All other portions of the site load normal, except the home page hesitates for about 4-5 seconds, before finally loading the page itself.

I even tried disabling Google Analytics temporarily, same problem.

This is what I have

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.talkjesus\.com 
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.talkjesus.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(sitemap.*\.(xml\.gz|txt))$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}index\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !vbseourl=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !chat
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteRule ^$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(archive/.*)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

<Limit GET>
order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

php_flag suhosin.cookie.encrypt Off
php_value suhosin.request.max_vars 2048
php_value suhosin.post.max_vars 2048

<IfModule mod_security.c>
    SecFilterEngine Off
    SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

I have not made any changes, only even attempted to reduce image sizes on the home page and removed to javascripts (which were still always there without a problem).

I even temporarily disabled the ajax tab script (right side of shoutbox), same slowdown issue.

Tips on resolving this appreciated. Server is using PHP 5 / Apache 2.2 / Mysql 5.

home difference = chat box.

disable that and see what happens.

I've been using that chatbox on the home page for 4 years without a problem.

I tried it without the chat box, same problem

I also reset forumhome, header, headerinclude to defaults as well. Same slow down problem.

from what i can tell, its load times are not from processing time. it took, according to firebug, 8.5 seconds to download your homepage. Some single images took 1.4 seconds.

it seems to be a network issue more than a database/script one i think. i don't know.

how's the server load on your box?

I host my own box. Load is normal, minimal. Dual Xeon 3.4GHz / 4GB Memory.

ping times here are good (60ms)

tracerte seems ok.

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Brian>ping talkjesus.com

Pinging talkjesus.com [147.202.66.3] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 147.202.66.3: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=47
Reply from 147.202.66.3: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=47
Reply from 147.202.66.3: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=47
Reply from 147.202.66.3: bytes=32 time=61ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 147.202.66.3:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 60ms, Maximum = 61ms, Average = 60ms

C:\Users\Brian>tracert talkjesus.com

Tracing route to talkjesus.com [147.202.66.3]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     3 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  mygateway1.Motorola [192.168.15.1]
  2    37 ms    46 ms    13 ms  c-76-23-248-1.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [76.23.248.1]

  3     5 ms     5 ms     6 ms  ge-1-13-rr01.bristol.ct.hartford.comcast.net [68
.86.231.1]
  4     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  te-3-1-rr01.newbritain.ct.hartford.comcast.net [
68.87.182.226]
  5     7 ms     5 ms     6 ms  te-9-2-ar01.berlin.ct.hartford.comcast.net [68.8
7.182.222]
  6     8 ms     6 ms     6 ms  po-10-ar01.chartford.ct.hartford.comcast.net [68
.87.146.29]
  7     9 ms    10 ms    10 ms  comcast-ip.edge1.newyork2.level3.net [4.78.169.4
6]
  8    11 ms    10 ms    10 ms  xe-10-1-0.edge1.newyork2.level3.net [4.78.169.45
]
  9    17 ms    18 ms    16 ms  vlan79.csw2.newyork1.level3.net [4.68.16.126]
 10    11 ms    16 ms    17 ms  ae-72-72.ebr2.newyork1.level3.net [4.69.134.85]

 11    43 ms    47 ms    43 ms  ae-2.ebr1.chicago1.level3.net [4.69.132.65]
 12    38 ms    37 ms    38 ms  ae-11-53.car1.chicago1.level3.net [4.68.101.66]

 13    61 ms    53 ms    63 ms  iowa-teleco.car1.chicago1.level3.net [4.79.208.7
8]
 14     *        *       54 ms  core1-ge10-2.nwtn.iowatelecom.net [69.66.3.37]
 15    59 ms    59 ms    59 ms  p2-1.border1.cf.teamnet.net [69.66.6.146]
 16    68 ms    67 ms    67 ms  bb1.coreswa.cf.teamnet.net [147.202.0.140]
 17    61 ms    62 ms    62 ms  ge0-2.core1.logicweb.com [147.202.6.58]
 18    58 ms     *       59 ms  talkjesus.com [147.202.66.3]

Trace complete.

C:\Users\Brian>

i dunno

I m having the same problem just now

www.friendskorner.com/forum is slow slow and slow

but this is working fine Friends Korner - Friends Korner

Do the 'slow' pages in question load quickly with vBSEO disabled?