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Can we (once again) address that 8a.nu is one of the slowest loading websites?

This has been brought up several times in the past, and as far as I'm concerned it hasn't got any better. Forum sites load acceptably fast but the main site is still a pain to open. I have to wait at least 5 seconds each time loading it before I feel I can interact with it without elements moving because some didn't load yet. It should also be noted that the epictv plugin made this a lot worse, whether a video is automatically played or not. I am not a website dev, but I think 8a.nu should start investing some money in rebuilding the site. And while you're at it: maybe make a publicly accessible API for the route database?
Thanks for visiting 8a. Based on Alexa.com, 8a is among the 15 % fastest websites and starting from tomorrow, we have decided together with EPICTV that they will take a break until they have solved some of the issues so please get back tomorrow and check if this will spped of the loading time.
Again, I am no web dev, I'd appreciate if someone could back me up or prove me wrong. From alexa.com: "The load time of an individual page is how long it takes for the DOM - the structure of the page - to be loaded. This time doesn't include the time to load all images and stylesheets, for example." Plugins like from epictv are not part of the DOM - more time needed to load. What I understand from looking at the page source with firefox is that 8a.nu is completely made up of stylesheets that are loaded after the main structure. The DOM/main structure is very minimalistic. So saying that 8a.nu loads faster than 85% other websites based on the alexa.com definition doesn't really prove a point. What I would really like to see is the site calculating how much space each element needs and then reserving that space BEFORE loading the elements. That way I could safely click on a forum link in the sidebar (edit: before the whole page did load) without fearing that as soon as I click the site's layout changes and a completely different link is opened.
saying there's sites slower than yours is not a good argument for letting it stay slow as sh*t.