I've had a few reports of the site being slow and sluggish, which I was totally unable to replicate myself, until I used Internet Explorer.
How's the site speed for you?
Please let me know and also what broswer you are using. Eg, Firefox, Opera or Internet explorer.
Thanks.
It was a bit slow a couple of days ago to initially load the first page, but after that, it was quite fine. No problems whatsoever now though, using Firefox. Now that I tried using it with IE6, it's slow as dry poop.
On my laptop I use Firefox (v3.0.3). The site is only slow for the initial connection to the server after that it is fine so long as I do not try to open any new tabs (in other words: if I simply refresh the page it is very quick, almost instant, however, if I try to create a new tab to look at another page the site becomes very sluggish again). Only my mobile phone (browser unknown as I am a noob) does the website time out.
This isn't really a problem - only a mild inconvenience as I am an impatient soul ;D
I use Firefox 3.0.10.
I didn't notice any pattern myself. Sometimes my internet connection itself is slow, I didn't have such distinct behavior to think it's the site, with rare exceptions.
Nor can I reproduce the behavior Mazguul pointed, links in new tabs load just fine. As for initial loading, I'm not fully sure what counts like it, as I don't close Firefox for ... weeks or something of the kind, and am always logged in.
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Quick tests:
- access with Internet Explorer 6.0, extremely slow, the first two pages (the home page and some link at a topic). After that, seems okay.
- access with Opera 9.24: immediate load of the home page, it seems. The link I accessed after that (the most recent topic): slow. About a dozen other links, very fast. (as I said, my internet connection may have a hiccup)
- or not, as the above behavior with Opera seems reproducible.
- yet, browsing with Opera I found another moment (not 'initial', apparently random) when the page I was visiting loaded extremely slow.
- the pages who were loaded extremely slowly: checked them, they were always pages where all links have PHPSESSID explicitely sent, that is, all links in these pages looked like:
http://orcsoftheredblade.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=995c8b210e0fc6aac287f07e41db870a&topic=1791.msg18923;topicseen#new and so on.
The opposite doesn't seem true (sometimes a page with explicite php session ids is loaded quickly).
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It happened with Firefox once too, to have suddenly the home page very slowly loaded. The page looked the same as noted: full of explicit php session ids.
Opera. It happened to have the "slow loading" of a page, whose's links didn't contain session ids. However, even then, the links in recent topics (and only them, this time) were formatted differently than usual, like:
http://orcsoftheredblade.com/forum/index.php?topic=1929.msg18943;topicseen#new
instead of the usual
http://orcsoftheredblade.com/forum/index.php/topic,1929.msg18943/topicseen.html#new. (resulting in them being treated as "not visited" by the browser, while the second would have been visited.)
I use firefox.
It is getting slow and slower to log in here.
Once in no problems it just getting in.
Dam Gnome in the works some where.
I use Google Chrome.
But I just found out one thing. Usually I'm logged on "Forever" and it's maddenly slow whatever I wanna do on the site. But! If I log out and in again it is as fast as before..
Sorry to say this but it is getting worst for me to log on.
Plus i have to retype my password etc every time now although it is all set up to remember me.
Do not think it is my end.
You're right Claws. There definately is a problem, however, I'm unable to pin down exactly where it currently lies. I'll keep you posted.
I works fine for me and im using Firefox :)
Quote from: Xigro on August 30, 2009, 11:24:17 PM
I works fine for me and im using Firefox :)
:D :D :D :D
Check the dates :D :D :D
Oh sorry, it was probably me hanging on to some entries I found so amusing I just could not let go.
my hands hurt
....releasing then..
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Has he let go yet.
((Hi ya OZ))