I've been having trouble with one of the external parts, be it ads or stats tracking, taking ages to load the first time I acess the site.
After stopping the load once, it speeds up to normal.
Server is unresponsive or slow at times. Not all the time, it sort of comes and goes... You tech and admin people may want to take a look under the bonnet and see what you find, I dunno. Dead squirrel, maybe.
Looks like there is a bit of a dead squirrel clogging up some of the internal tubes. I'll schedule some maintenance for tonight and fetch my squirrel declogger