phoronix.com became slow and unresponsive after RX 480 articles

[atomsymbol]

It seems the higher demand for RX 480 articles is making the phoronix.com web server unresponsive.

Is this correct? If not, is there a different reason explaining why it takes longer to load Phoronix web pages?

[Michael]

Yes, it's due to higher traffic related to RX 480 content.

[atomsymbol]

Yes, it's due to higher traffic related to RX 480 content.

It is caused by network bandwidth limits, or by CPU and slow software?

Running Chrome's DevTools on for example http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...80-linux&num=1 shows that the following images aren't cached:

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...md_rx480_1_med
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...md_rx480_3_med
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...md_rx480_5_med
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...rx480_sys1_med
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...rx480_sys2_med

A lossless optimizer for jpeg images might also be helpful: jpegoptim

[atomsymbol]

In cases such as https://www.phoronix.com/forums/css....&ts=1466683092 I would suggest to remove "http:" from the font URL because it prevents the browser to load the font when using https to access Phoronix:

@import url(//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400italic,700italic,400,700); etc .....

[atomsymbol]

It takes about 0.5 seconds to download an image such as http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...80_rv770_1_med