SLOW - SLOW
Well, I appreciate all the time and hard work that went into the change over here at the forums, but from where I am they have become almost unusable for me. Every click of any link takes any where from 10 to 20 seconds or longer to load! It's painfully slow.. I don't have that much time. I feel like I am on dial up and I'm not.
I have checked back many times in the last few weeks at different times and it's always the same.
Shame.. although I am not a big poster I have been coming here for a long time.
I really hope that this changes.
As for the look, well this one is a bit too bland for me.
But the info and friendly-ness of this site has always been what kept me coming back.
Good Luck..
I'll check back again when I have time to actually kill.
~dragonsjaw
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
teammatt3 posted this at 19:59 — 26th January 2008.
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Yup, I totally agree. It was loading faster a while ago, but it's back to a turtle's pace.
James posted this at 22:43 — 26th January 2008.
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Speed seems OK for me. But it's more all the missing features of a forum which I think is too drastic a change.
Megan posted this at 22:57 — 26th January 2008.
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So, which features are you missing? There are a lot of things we could implement if there was enough interest.
Liam will check into the speed issues asap. I'm finding it a bit slow but not too bad.
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JeevesBond posted this at 01:29 — 27th January 2008.
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Speed is fine here. This is a hard problem to diagnose as for Megan and I pages usually take less than 5 seconds to load, it's slower than vBulletin but not 30 seconds slow and not unusable. We were having a lot of problems a few weeks ago, but that's been solved.
Unfortunately I can't diagnose and fix a problem if it can't be reproduced. Maybe it's not the software, but some connectivity issue, remember this guy? Am not trying to ignore the problem but am afraid I just don't know how to fix it, and if it were a problem with the software we'd all be affected.
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Greg K posted this at 02:20 — 27th January 2008.
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Just to give an example, for me, the link you have in your post took 14 seconds to load, and to be honest didn't really check to make sure the whole page itself is completely loaded, just to the point that it was actually readable.
I must agree that the speed is affecting my interactivity here, along with the change from what I'm used to. I know they take time to get used to, and as time goes on will add/edit features, but the speed is a huge issue for me.
I might find a way for you to VPN to a system near me, from which network I do experience the slow connection.
I'll let you know so you can possibly test it from that.
-Greg
webwiz posted this at 02:24 — 27th January 2008.
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22 seconds for this page, with a clean cache on dial-up here (Oakland California).
Not bad at all.
JeevesBond posted this at 04:40 — 27th January 2008.
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Hmmm, 8 seconds for me. 22 seconds is longer than we'd like, but you are on dial-up. Might have just experienced what you guys are talking about though, the server had mysteriously ground to a halt and wasn't serving any pages at all, just gave it a restart. Is that any better?
Greg K: that sounds like a plan. Any way I can see what the heck is going on.
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demonhale posted this at 04:46 — 27th January 2008.
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Well I average 15 seconds per page, 20 seconds per reply, and yes it's slower than what I'm used to... Add to that the page really drags when I make multiple requests (multiple tabs)...
teammatt3 posted this at 06:13 — 27th January 2008.
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Yeah, since this morning when I last visited, it seems better. Still not great though. (When I want to look up and old thread, I do a Google search for it and look at the cached result :eek:)
I popped open the website in Opera and it loads way faster, I tried in IE too and it's way better than Firefox. Have you and Megan checked in Firefox lately? That's where I'm getting horrid load times. I opened the website on my linux box in firefox (first time using firefox on it) and it's really slow too.
Speedtest.net says I'm get a 18001 kb/s download and a 2198 kb/s upload.
JeevesBond posted this at 06:35 — 27th January 2008.
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WTF?! I use Firefox and Lori to get load times. Weird man, really weird.
Thanks for the info though, seriously, this problem is getting on my chimes! Got to fix it!
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JeevesBond posted this at 07:07 — 27th January 2008.
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I've enabled some extra caching, it will make the forum look weird (don't worry about that for now), but should improve performance. Is it still really slow?
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Greg K posted this at 07:38 — 27th January 2008.
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Jeeves, thanks for the link to Lori, love it.
For this page, I just got 7.609s for full load, 118.05KB and 63 requests.
Nice addon!
-Greg
JeevesBond posted this at 07:51 — 27th January 2008.
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No problem Greg.
7 seconds isn't bad is it?
teammatt3 posted this at 17:15 — 27th January 2008.
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Speed is getting better...Lori is telling me 12.594 s for this page. 9.547 s for the homepage. But when I refreshed it went to 14.859 s.
demonhale posted this at 06:23 — 28th January 2008.
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Today page loads dropped to 9 seconds, reply in about 12sec and logging in at 15 secs. Have to note that the 9seconds load time is on a multiple tab wait... And this is on FF... That's pretty ok imho...
Megan posted this at 14:03 — 28th January 2008.
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If you're having speed problems we'd also like to know if it happens when:
- you're logged out
- you're on aPaddedCell not TWF
- you're on other sites hosted by our server (MeganMcDermott.com, for example)
That might help us to narrow down the problem...
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demonhale posted this at 09:31 — 29th January 2008.
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In light of Megans post, all my responses are for APC and TWF only, logged out it drops at 2secs average, logged in, a bit slower... I think it's catching up though. Today the major delay I had is with TWF private messages, it took almost half a minute to open and read...
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