Do your part: If you are just looking, don't log into mtgox trading API sites

[annette786]

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Just use other exchanges, if mtgox has hardware that can't handle the traffic that they proudly announce, let the market take care of it and let's use a better exchange

[Nagato]

From a technical perspective,

Their frontend(website) appears to be fine. Webservers are not the bottleneck.These are easy to scale if need be.
The problem is either their trade engine code(which might not be coded optimally or in something non-performant like Java/Ruby) or more likely the DB.
To be fair, its not easy to optimise the DB part when money is involved. Consistency is more important then performance in this case.
The need to ensure consistency in the event of any failure makes optimisation quite difficult.