Could be a problem with your host. Who is it?

There might be a timeout. The second time it just goes fast enough not to hit the tileout because many things are in cache on the server... until they go out of cache.

You may want to try to disable all plugins too.

It's self hosted on a fedora core 10 server and website is only available internally. There are other intranet hosted on the same server but it seems only the b2evo blogs are having this problem.

I upgraded website to latest version (V333) and the problem seems getting worse. The website now appears 'hangs' for a long time, hitting refresh / reload does not work like it used to (with V331, see my workaround solution in original post). Have to wait for whatever it's trying to do (waiting for some timeout?) to load a page, whether is the blog front page or the backoffice. This happens with every single page access.

Does b2evo tries to access external websites on startup? As mentioned, it's Intranet and does not have internet presence. The server also does not have internet connection. So one reason I could come up with it's trying to access some Internet website and waits for timeout.

The plugins used are 'minimal' - archived widget, auto link, auto p, calendar widget, quick tag, texturized, and tinymce.

If it's not to do with internet access, what else could it be?

For my websites that do have internet presence, they don't seem to have this problem.

add $allow_evo_stats = false; to your /conf/_basic_config.php ;)

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Thanks for the fix! The website now loads instantly.