being throttled

You can try to disable network for few hours and compare results. Our sites are visited very often by bots (crawlers from Google and many other search engines). Every time bot is visiting site (and searching for keyword), site performs also network search and this is consuming much time. This function, I mean network search during crawler visits, can be disabled in future version. Maybe it would hurt SEO a bit and maybe not, because most important for SEO is image pages indexing.
XML cache helps to reduce CPU time used for waiting for network results. Maybe you have set too short time – go to Bee->Network page and enter at least 14 (better 20-30) in “days cache network search”. Result should be seen after a week or more.

I would like to know what throttling means, last time I checked (probably the last time someone mentioned it) I had been throttled for 3600 seconds every hour for 22 hours (surprising I was still alive ! :D) during that time I had uploaded some images and worked on them – other people had visited with no problems so I wonder what it actually means.

@steveh wrote:

I originally got onto this because my site was taking 12 – 20 seconds to load a page, and when I complained, the tech told me that the site was being throttled. It is faster now – about 6 – 8 seconds on average.

Steve

Did you do something to improve the speed?

On the speed question – no, I didn’t. I assume that the overall load on the server went down or something. I felt I couldn’t complain while my site was doing something in the background that was causing an overload itself.

On the seconds – I am talking about 1200 seconds each hour on my site, not per day.

Steve