User blog comment:Drew1200/Official Move Date/@comment-4052371-20130503004125/@comment-5884303-20130504161831

We've done a lot to increase the speed. The main reason it was slow was a supposed DoS attack, or at least just a large wave of spammers flooding the server with requests.

Also, the new site is 2.1x faster than the Wikia site. The new site loads in 1138ms, while the old site loads in 2375ms.