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Is this site slow
Posted by Mark JF on 16 March 2010 - 7:30pm.
or is it really, really, really slow? I have a 2 year old iMac with additional memory plugged into a reasonable broadband connection but everything on the site is slow to load, slow to respond, slow, slow, slow. It's been this way for a while, it's getting worse and I don't think it's my Mac. Fraser?
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Slow?
Not at my end. Cleared your cache on your browser lately? What browser? Have you tried a different one?
I even tried with Opera
and their turbo option, which is usually very quick. But our beloved Word site was still slow.
I couldn't even get the site to load at all
this evening, so in desperation I checked software update and there is an update for Safari [4.0.5]. I installed it 2 minutes ago and here I am.
Often very slow for me to
on the verge of hanging.
Steady on!
Suicide is a bit of an over-reaction, surely?
It does take a while to load sometimes,
and it does seem to have got a tad slower recently. I'd put it down to my router arguing with the exchange (I've just changed to ADSL Max from a fixed speed contract), but maybe that's not the issue.
Have we overloaded the dilithium crystals Fraser?
I've noticed this too...
my posts definitely take longer to load than they used to. Which on reflection is probably a good thing...
Load times seen slower than
other sites.
I've noticed that
Seems to be waiting for some external services sometimes. "Track" seems to be slow most often. No biggie though, as they say.
It is intermittently slow
I've noticed in mostly during mid-early afternoons, evenings better. Could be for a whole range of reasons
BORING GEEKY STUFF ALERT:
If it's being hosted on shared hosting facilities, other servers may be getting hammered during working hours nd affecting performance.
If it's not on shared hosting, it may still be in a network segment that's taken some stick.
Could be running out of disk space/memory on the server host machine
Could also be the case for the MySQL server that's being used for Drupal
(but that probably wouldn't be intermittent but continual)
PS: Andrew Harrison may want to set his privacy flag to avoid us seeing his address in whois searches
It's pretty slow during my PST day...
...speeds up when you lot have all gone to bed though...
Interestingly FlagFox indicates it's actually hosted in the USA, Pittsburgh, to be precise.
I agree
It has seemed slow today particularly
Me too
10mb broadband and I've noticed it's got very slow lately.
snail's fart
here, work, different browsers, cleared cache's
must we throw this pop filth at our old phartes?
know what ye mean JB
this was posted right after the above loaded
2 mins
:(
new
Glad I'm not the only one then. I have basic computer knowledge but it takes ages to log on to this site and to post as well. Happy now that its not just my computer
It seems a lot slower
since the Latitude stuff was added
infuriatingly slow
in comparison to virtually all other sites - and worse than ever lately!
agreed
I normally come into the site from google as I find it quicker than typing the address (never got used to using favourites, even after all this time), but tonight just would not load, checked other matches on the google page and they all loaded OK but this was slow slow slow, anyways, its always worth the wait......
I thought
I had broken the internet. Lucky for me it was someone else.
Me too
I'm afraid. Thought it was the old lap top till it happened at work, then the paranoia set in that someone had blocked the old site even during the "social use allowed" hours.
I'm with Kylie
I love this version - Kylie/Kraftwerk
And this one: Kylie & Massive Attack
Slowness
It is very slow at the moment, especially early afternoons, and especially today. I'm not quite sure what the root cause is, but I'm working on it, eliminating possibilities one at a time.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
"tis probably the Flash on the 3 Latitude ads.
Flash makes your computer work much harder - even when the download times ain't that big.
It's probably best to use just one flash ad and just use jpegs for the rest
(It says here)
Not sure.
I have Activity Monitor running at all times on my machine, and neither processor or RAM is anywhere close to spiking when navigating this site, which suggests something at the server end to me.
There are a few sites which hog resources terribly. Facebook chat, for example, can sometimes slow my MacBook Pro to a crawl, with RAM and processor resources taking it in turns to peak.
Seconded
I think it is server end too - no sign of my CPU peaking either and I can load pages from other sites and read them in the time it sometimes takes for a Word page to update
It's not the server
And it's not flssh. It's the database.
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Aha
see 7:58pm last night.
One other(technical) note
when the db does fall over, you do get fairly comprhensive error messages - including full dumps of the queries into drupal (not good if someone wants to play sql injection on The Word site). I'd suggest tightening the PHP error_reporting level on a production box to remove them if your hosting setup makes it easy.
FWIW
Last night it wouldn't load at all, and my Firefox status bar said it was waiting for external content; I'm afraid I didn't take a note of the domain name.
Please be patient
Fraser is doing what he can. But he is at a wedding in Chile.
"at a wedding in Chile"
Different context, different meaning and, in this case, presumably true but "at a wedding in Chile" has got what it takes to be the new "discussing Uganda"
I certainly intend to add it to my arsenal of excuses.
Best excuse I've ever heard
and I shall be using it, too.
Most people would be
'Cooking chilli for a wedding'
Not our man.
Top leadswinging ruse, Frase. Keep it up, you're an inspiration.
Yesterday.
Very slooooowwww yesterday,seems faster today.Like a Hi-Tech Cha Cha Cha.Good things come to he that waits I suppose.Is Fraser bringing us some cake?
Thanks to Fraser and David
for responding (especially as Fraser appears to be on t'other side of the world). For me, it's been this way for a few weeks so a few more days won't hurt.
Oh, I wouldn't want you to think...
...I was having a go, for my part. I was just trying to provide information.
Me neither
just trying to share info
Our Fraser
Is the new Michael Palin. He should have his own column.
The site has not been the same since the Mark/Kate video clip was posted so it must be their fault.
It's very slow my end
I often wonder if I'm behind everyone else.
May I also be the first to welcome Middlerabbit to the site.
Best laugh of the day so far
And I can't seem to give you an up arrow.
Maybe the site is pining for Fraser's return.
Pining for Fraser's return!
Its bleedin demised
and aren't
Fray Bentos pies great?
No not that lead
put it back, now get the ariel, up a bit, down,.....no not that far, it's gone again!Oh it worse than it was before
1:30 onwards
Maybe its all this 1950's TV I keep posting that is the problem.....
Still Sloooooowwww.
I think the Frou frou valve is still stuck in the Mangle gear sprocket.
And that from a man
who appears to still use pencils :-)
One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle
I should think.
Oooh, middle class
isn't good enough for you now...
It ain't half...
slow again tonight. Is there a problem, Fraser?
and no better
tonight - slow to the point where it puts you off using the site!