NOM website incredibly slow

[nibbler]

Is it just me or does the NOM site load incredibly slow? Like 30 seconds to load a page slow.

I'm guessing it's slow because there are lots of bots scraping the site to the point where it's like the site is under a DDOS attack. I was hoping the bots crawling the site would eventually get everything and things would get better but the slowness has been an issue for a long time now.

Could an admin maybe look into blocking the Semrush bot and possibly other bots to see if the site load times improve?

[Ghost]

Does this scraping mean the LLMs will now all have deep insight into what it's like to go through a Mormon faith transition?

[nibbler]

I think that must be what they're after. Training AI. It's not the worst thing, it just stinks when one of the bots goes out of control and renders the site unusable.

The bots seem to have moved on, the site is snappy at the moment. Hopefully the storm has passed.