Load times from http://WebWait.com:

http://mamo-net.de/forum.php . Average: 0.81s. Median: 0.78s. StdDev: 0.81s. From 10 calls.

http://bbpress.org/forums/ . Average: 1.61s. Median: 1.48s. StdDev: 1.61s. From 10 calls.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussions . Average: 1.52s. Median: 1.50s. StdDev: 1.52s. From 10 calls.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/?sid=89568ac780250f265a0bbb3bd15579af. Average: 1.75s. Median: 1.68s. StdDev: 1.75s. From 10 calls.

what do you say?

i’ve installed Viscacha and was pretty surprised how fast it was and all important plugins are already preinstalled.

i remember when bbpress was the fastest. Good old times.

[@hpguru Member 16 years ago]

My bbPress http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/

0.53 sec, 18 queries.

[@hpguru Member 16 years ago]

Average load time after 10 runs: 1.17s

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years ago]

bbPress 0.9 can still be fastest if setup correctly.

I assure you I have more plugins running at once than virtually anyone.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

Average: 0.50s. Median: 0.41s. StdDev: 0.50s. From 10 calls.

https://bbpress.org/forums/

Average: 0.73s. Median: 0.43s. StdDev: 0.73s. From 10 calls.

And that webwait site is a very poor way of benchmarking things.

Your distance to each site also affects the load time

(especially since you are far overseas to continental USA).