I have noticed this site getting slower and slower over the past few months. All the other forums I frequent are unchanged. I really enjoy this site, but frankly rarely come here any more due to the pages either not loading without continually refreshing them or sometimes waiting up to 5 minutes for a single page. ANyone else having this issue?

 

OK here. ( Firefox 8.0)

 

I downloaded Google Chrome sometime back and it made a nice difference in speed, here and elsewhere.

 

Fine here sometimes it gets laggy but not consistent

 

I found out that if you don't visit a site on a everyday basis, it will be slow.

 

Mine freezes if I change tabs while a new page loads. It gets a little frustrating.

Recently I'm just seeing less forum activity here overall though. Not sure why.

 

New year and New President election!!!

 

Good here. [Opera Mobile].

 

Fast as ever with my Firefox

 

There's alot of possible variables that can effect load speed.....first thing to look at is your web browser....clean it!!!.....clear the cookies, cache, history......

 

What I have noticed, and really hate, are the buttons added to the top of a page (thread) you open....the tweet, FB button crap at the top really slows me down now. I have firefox and it has worked great until this change.

Jim

 

I'm not very computer literate, but I'm curious. How does the FB button slow one down if it is not clicked?

 

These....


The link buttons are the last thing to load when loading a page.....they do take up memory on a page.....

 

Using firefox and noscript you can block those buttons by blocking the sites. I don't have many issues with the site loading and my cookies and cache get dumped every time I close the browser.

 

The amount of memory on the page is minor.

The "slow" to complete the page would be from a delay in a site responding to a request.

Those buttons need to make a call to an external site and retrieve the information via a javascript. If twitter or G plus one is slow to reply, the page load will stall.

Take a look at the page source to see the where :


If you look at the page info on the media tab, you can see where the green background ( i.e. reply to thread bar, additional options bar in a reply ) is called to the ibserver 1st and then the src is from this site. Not too sure why the call for a background is made to 1 server, which hands it back to 150ol, I am not that good at programming to know why this should be done.

Add in the postrelease calls to an external server, and the FB call on a page load ( and the others show in the page source & page info ), and you have a ton of external servers over the internet ( or private peering points ) that can make a page slow to finish loading.

The status bar in a web browser should show what site it is stalled on when loading.