Nairaland is ranked the 10th most visited site in Nigeria as at August 2018 and the 4th most visited indigenous site according to Alexa.com. This statistic suggests that not less than 3% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland compared to Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users which correspond to approximately 20% of the Internet population. Registration is only necessary for posting. Nairaland has been operating since 2005 with the same ınterface.

I did a full design case study for this

https://www.behance.net/gallery/93022789/Nairaland-Website-Redesign

Your design will be consuming plenty hell of a data.
Keep it.

Beautiful design.
However it took at least 6secs for the site to fully load probably due to the design.

The original nairaland site takes less than a second to load. Sure it's not feature rich like many blogs today, but it's very fast and has a very user friendly UI.

My advice to seun: don't fix what's not broken.

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