Hey Art the one thing that I have noticed is that images are loading much faster in the thread sections as there was a bit of a lag in that before now they are fairly instant. the main pages themselves seem to load at the same rate. I am also using Chrome as my browser. We may bring it back... just trying to see if the sidebar was the cause of some of our slowdown issues. I'll dito what deadland said, I found myself giving up looking at images as they took to long to load, but I feel that they are much faster now. But I also find that it is slightly faster aswell transitioning through differnent sub forums and topics. Im using windows explorer 8.