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OK, the slowness might not have anything to do with the website, if I trace the route (and the time it takes) to the caravan club website, I get this:

time traceroute -d caravanclub.co.uk
traceroute to caravanclub.co.uk (46.30.199.165), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.073 ms 13.764 ms 13.793 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 be3-3102.pcn-ir02.plus.net (195.166.143.132) 24.197 ms 24.433 ms 27.848 ms
5 195.99.125.140 (195.99.125.140) 24.187 ms 195.99.125.144 (195.99.125.144) 27.867 ms 27.824 ms
6 62.172.103.49 (62.172.103.49) 27.840 ms peer1-et-1-3-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.21) 24.262 ms peer1-et-10-3-0.telehouse.ukcore.bt.net (62.172.103.17) 19.187 ms
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 213.86.97.94 (213.86.97.94) 18.192 ms 18.462 ms 20.682 ms
10 * * *
11 * * *
12 * * *
13 * * *
14 * * *
15 * * *
16 * * *
17 * * *
18 * * *
19 * * *
20 * * *
21 * * *
22 * * *
23 * * *
24 * * *
25 * * *
26 * * *
27 * * *
28 * * *
29 * * *
30 * * *

real 0m25.200s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.008s

If I do it with another website, I get this:

time traceroute -d samba.org
traceroute to samba.org (144.76.82.156), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.081 ms 13.699 ms 13.731 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 be3-3102.pcn-ir02.plus.net (195.166.143.132) 24.191 ms 24.375 ms 27.755 ms
5 195.99.125.140 (195.99.125.140) 24.186 ms 195.99.125.144 (195.99.125.144) 28.028 ms 28.154 ms
6 core3-hu0-8-0-0.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.36) 28.092 ms core3-hu0-14-0-7.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.64) 24.325 ms core3-hu0-8-0-0.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.36) 19.324 ms
7 62.6.201.145 (62.6.201.145) 19.353 ms 16.582 ms core4-hu0-1-0-1.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (195.99.127.50) 14.474 ms
8 213.137.183.100 (213.137.183.100) 16.071 ms * 213.137.183.98 (213.137.183.98) 16.656 ms
9 * * ae6-2011.nbg40.core-backbone.com (80.255.14.246) 33.102 ms
10 core-backbone-100g-nbg.hetzner.de (81.95.15.6) 29.881 ms ae1-2014.nbg40.core-backbone.com (81.95.15.206) 31.490 ms core-backbone-100g-nbg.hetzner.de (81.95.15.6) 29.290 ms
11 core12.nbg1.hetzner.com (213.239.229.165) 31.544 ms 32.776 ms 31.362 ms
12 core24.fsn1.hetzner.com (213.239.203.126) 35.415 ms core24.fsn1.hetzner.com (213.239.245.30) 31.906 ms core24.fsn1.hetzner.com (213.239.203.126) 34.107 ms
13 ex9k2.rz19.hetzner.de (213.239.229.62) 32.256 ms core23.fsn1.hetzner.com (213.239.203.122) 31.723 ms ex9k2.rz19.hetzner.de (213.239.229.58) 32.882 ms
14 ex9k2.rz19.hetzner.de (213.239.229.62) 32.175 ms hr0.samba.org (144.76.82.137) 32.396 ms ex9k2.rz19.hetzner.de (213.239.229.62) 33.608 ms
15 hr3.samba.org (144.76.82.156) 33.011 ms 31.808 ms hr0.samba.org (144.76.82.137) 31.851 ms

real 0m5.610s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.008s

It takes approx 5 times as long to trace the route and samba.org is in Germany.

It might be a good idea to ask colt.net if there is something wrong with their dns servers or if they can speed things up.

FAO whomsoever it may concern - This is showed on my laptop a few moments ago when I went to look at Introductions about he old air planes BBMF I think was the thread title.  Guess it maybe coding

Hortimech

I will admit that I don't really understand what you have done and what it means but you seem to be pointing in the same direction as my comments re servers. Many of us are now on high speed broadband and this should mean that access to most websites should almost be instantaneous, OK there will be the odd glitch along the way but this forum is for most of the day so slow it can't be down to our own connections all of the time?

David

traceroute is a program that does what it says, it traces the route between your PC and in this case www.caravanclub.co.uk, by preceding it with the program 'time', you get how long it takes to complete. In this case 25 seconds (and presumably, it takes this long every time), where as the second example takes 5 seconds and it is going to Germany!

The problem seems to be that the search gets bogged down in 'colt.net' somewhere.

That looks like the data which appears if you right click on source.

brue.   Agree its much easier to read when right click on original post & open in new tab [using laptop]  Seems to be a mix of various posts.

Sometimes I right click by mistake and get all this stuff. It just tracks through the whole source information/data from origin to end.

The duplicate thread issue seems to be worse than ever.

It's now so much hassle to try to post at times, that I sometimes don't bother.

Rowena, for goodness sake convince the powers that be to bin this software and then create a new forum with off the shelf software which will work so much better - guaranteed. 

I can still read the Hidden section, you know.

I find myself not posting and occasionally reading here days. Just too hard 😢. I have now sussed posting photos so rather frustrating!

Not to mention old threads from years ago popping up without replies. Helpful folk take time and effort to reply and it can be several posts before someone picks it up 😤

This being a classic started 5 years ago 

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/sites-touring/uk-sites-touring/affiliated-sites/?er=P448422#P448422

But have you noticed, apart from the ones who spot these are old threads  there are always people who seem to want to discuss anything that appears. 

Apart from that it is hard to fathom out what has gone wrong on the website as the searches and submissions right across the board, not just the forum area, are so poor and unpredictable.