Slow Again?

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Touch wood, looks like this problem is not only fixed, but improved.

Previously in normal operation a group of adverts called in one way were taking a sluggish 2.5s each to respond, whilst another, simpler group averaged about 0.2s, which is reasonable.  ‘Normal’  wasn’t brilliant, and went intermittently haywire causing this topic to be opened and Jason to report the fault.

Now all adverts are called in the same way and all are responding consistently in the 0.2s region (good). Early days, but no long delays so far.

The zigzagging timelines are normal variations caused by slight server, network and client delays.

Dave

 

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Hurrah !

MichaelG.

[John MCParticipant @johnmc39344]

I’m still unable to get rid of the cookie dialogue box, make selection, page reloads, box reappears.  Only a minor inconvenience but, never the less, irritating as it slows down and already sluggish page.

 

 

[John MC]

On John MC Said:

I’m still unable to get rid of the cookie dialogue box, make selection, page reloads, box reappears.  Only a minor inconvenience but, never the less, irritating as it slows down and already sluggish page.

 

 

That’s something different John.   Worth opening a new topic to see if anyone else is suffering. Also, in the new topic, please describe your set-up: network speed, device, o/s and browser.    Have you tried Report Bug?  The webmaster and IT Team don’t read forum posts.

I have 2 Windows10 and several Linux machines, and can borrow daughter’s Apple.   I get similar symptoms to yours occasionally on one of the Windows10 computers, which strongly suggests a configuration problem on that one computer.   I think, but have been unable to confirm, that it’s font related.

Need more evidence, either to advise what you need to do if it’s client-end, or to give Webmaster solid information he can work with.  Ideally, enough data so he can replicate the problem.

Dave

 

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

Slow again must be Friday!!!!

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Model Boats site is up and down today. Maybe something to do with the sale to Kelsey?

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I did let Andy know earlier, he can see the errors in his software that logs things.

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Almost stopped here. Microsoft edge.

[Andrew TinsleyParticipant @andrewtinsley63637]

The site has been incredibly slow from 9am, when I first logged in until now (3pm) . It isn’t just slow it is snail like, approx a minute to download a page, if you are lucky. Unless you are totally desperate, I would not bother trying to use it.

Andrew.

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Model Boats site now has ‘Carrying out Maintenance’ placeholder screen.

[John MCParticipant @johnmc39344]

Still sluggish for me, no slower than usual.   Still can’t get rid of the cookie box, after accepting the page reloads, its still there and so on.   Also, can’t stay logged on now.

Tried with three different computers at home, Windows 10 and 11 and good old XP, all the same, with Edge and Firefox.

Tried on a computer elsewhere, Windows 11, just the same.

Very frustrating, haven’t bothered to look at the forum much of this week.  A shame really, I like the diverse range of subjects, something that would not be allowed on other forums I frequent.   At least they work properly.

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

YEP ! It’s Friday and VERY slow – again. Ah well that’s life. Noel.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Forum performance is absolutely dire today … I have lost the will to “participate”

’Bye for now !

MichaelG.

[Michael Gilligan]

On Michael Gilligan Said:

Forum performance is absolutely dire today … I have lost the will to “participate”

’Bye for now !

MichaelG.

Same here.

John MC

 

[jimmy bParticipant @jimmyb]

This is now getting beyond a joke!

 

Jimb

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Thinking the title should be changed from slow again to even slower again

H

[Colin HeseltineParticipant @colinheseltine48622]

This is the slowest I have ever seen the site.  The screen is repainted very slowly.

Colin

It took over 45 seconds, maybe nearer a minute to update when submitted the two lines above.  Atrocious

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

As Victor Sylvester didn’t say, slow, slow, slow slow slow. And if you tap the upload image button by mistake you can’t get rid of it, only way is to leave the site completely and start again.

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

Very slow this morning, not a lot better now. windows 10 on firefox

Roy

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

I missed the main event, poorly again.  Anyway turned my monitor back on at 18:30 yesterday, and advintage is sporadically misbehaving again, with 4 events caught taking over 5 seconds to respond.   (Normal is about 0.2s)

As noted before, most of the delays occur in the wee small-hours and are unlikely to be caused by member activity.  After the last outbreak, the web team made 3 or 4 significant changes to advintage, which seemed to have fixed it.  Seems not!

Advintage isn’t part of the forum as such, rather adverts are served from a separate host with different software which is malfunctioning.   Unfortunately our browsers wait for delayed adverts, making the whole forum look bad.

The evidence strongly suggests this is a server end bug, not related to our client-end operating system, browser, computer or network connection, or anything members are doing.

Dave

 

 

[An OtherParticipant @another21905]

I don’t want to question the work people are doing on this problem, but I have an observation: I don’t live in the UK, but I’ve not seen any ‘slow’ loading during the time this thread has been open – If I open the site, it appears very quickly – certainly much less than one second.

I was going to suggest that it looked more like a server problem external to the ME one, but that probably makes no sense, unless the routing out of the UK is completely different.

Anyway, as  I said, just an observation.

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