Replying to NS running extremely slow?

Maybe its just me, however several times of the day when I'm on here it will take over a minute to load a thread in the forums, and the website just runs extremely slowly. This has been occuring for quite some time now, and it is very frustrating. At first I thought that maybe it was just my internet, however I can open several other webpages and browse through many different pages all in the time that one thread loads on here. I've also had the problem on both safari and firefox.

Maybe its from a recent increase in traffic to NS? Am I the only one that is having these problems? Also I hope that this is not a repost, since the searchbar yielded no results.