I forgot to mention, Rob Labatt writes in his Yuku entry on 23 June 2006 that:

“BTW, we have fixed the slowness/outage issues mentioned earlier today.”

Excellent stuff. So I did my little speed test at around 3.00pm BST today, i.e. 7.00am at Yuku’s San Francisco base. I emptied my Firefox browser, closed it down and restarted it then started a stopwatch the moment I went to http://help.yuku.com then to its “Help forum and potential bugs” forum and then to its first non-sticky thread. At each point I waited for the page to be loaded before clicking on and stopped the clock the moment that last thread was finished loading. There were seven people online.

38 seconds.

Then the same on my vBulletin forum on one of 1&1 Internet’s shared servers. Loaded the board’s home page, then clicked on a public forum and then the first non-sticky thread (which had more avatars, etc. to load than the Yuku one). There were 16 users online including the Google Spider and two instances of the Yahoo! Slurp Spider to slow things down.

10 seconds.

I wonder how slow it’ll be when all the ezboard users and the ezboards themselves have been migrated over?