NO Idea ???

[DougM]

I do not know where to post this at ?????

It seems that this Web site has slowed way down
( loading )

I am not having problms with any other Site's

Any idea as to what MY problm is ???

DougM

 

[PineRidge]

Doug this type of issue is usally posted under News/Feedback

Maybe a moderator will move it.

 

[Glenn9643]

Doug,
Seems to me that the main page has slowed down due to ads loading. I've found that jumping from forum to forum (option at the bottom of the screen when browsing the forums) speeds things up. I prefer that to the "last xx hours" option.

 

[jwstewar]

I haven't noticed the actual forums slowing down, but I have noticed if you view any images they seem like they take a while to load. Considering they are under 100k they should load pretty quick.

 

[BillyP]

I've noticed it too. I noticed right about when they put the newest John Deere ad up.

 

[3RRL]

Me too.
I noticed it when I got back last night and wanted to catch up. It took FOREVER to jump to pages and discussions.
A little better this evening, though.

 

[Ibrahim]

I know why!

It was just an idea I had that I thought I might get away with. But I see it is slowing down the forum. I'm going to disable it. But searching is going to be a little bit delayed again (right now it's up to date.) But we can live with a slow search. We can't live with a slow site!

-Ibrahim

 

[DougM]

Today I timed moving around from one post to the next and it
came out to a bout 10 seconds. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

DougM

 

[Ibrahim]

Can you be more specific? What are the times at the bottom of the page? Since every page displays the time it took to load the page. That will help narrow down what the slowdown is.

-Ibrahim

 

[thcri]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Can you be more specific? What are the times at the bottom of the page? Since every page displays the time it took to load the page. That will help narrow down what the slowdown is.

-Ibrahim )</font>


Just now going from this thread to the main discussion page. Doesn't happen often but this particular time after waiting over 30 seconds I had to click on the main index tab a second time and then it went right away.

Again it doesn't happen often but every so often.

murph

 

[DougM]

Generated in 0.103 seconds in which 0.083 seconds were spent on a total of 13 queries. Zlib compression enabled


Is this what u ment ??


Generated in 0.016 seconds in which 0.008 seconds were spent on a total of 6 queries. Zlib compression enabled

and some times I have to hit the refresh ??

Must be my cpu ??

DougM /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Must be my cpu ?? )</font>

That's highly doubtfull. I still have old pentium 1 166 and amdk62 150's setup as internet boxes for the families kids when they come over. each has a 56k modem and a 10mb lan card. Those old processors can handle multiple connections.

Heck. I have an old 486 dx 40 ( amd ) that ran multiple dial in lines on v.90 as a bulleting board.. serial data transfer is -not- taxing on a computer.

My first pentium, a pentium 80 overdrive chip, socketed into a 486 vlb motherboard with 64 meg of simms stacked on ram stacker cards is running win95 fine and is on a 100 md ethernet network.

Processor speed is not the 'slow' factor for data transfers... nor is it the HDD... it's still the network... that is still the slowest part of the bottleneck..

Soundguy

 

[Ibrahim]

Yeah, if you see a 10-second delay, but the bottom of the page is saying "0.1 seconds" then it's likely a network delay of some sort. (There are so many places it could be. Either your ISP to you, or us to your ISP, or an internal-network router, etc)

-Ibrahim

 

[DougM]

Generated in 0.11 seconds in which 0.095 seconds were spent on a total of 13 queries. Zlib compression enabled

What can I do to make looking at this bb faster ?
This is the ONLY ONE that gives me problms..

I have direcway satilite

1275 meg of ram.
1.8 pentium
I will re build the whole thing if I have to ..

Idea;s PLEASE

DougM /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[Mith]

Doug,
I found that since all those sponser ads were added the site has slowed way down. Every other site loads instantly, but TBN loads in chunks going down the screen, takes a few seconds to load.

I dont understand why you need so many ads, there are lots of other free sites that arent slowed down by excessive ads like here.

 

[Ibrahim]

It's relating to the way your browser renders pages. Firefox and IE both will render the page differently. And it also relates to your operating system configuration.

As everyone who's posted the time the site is taking to loading, it's nothing we can do on our end. We might try new designs to help lower the rendering time. But I can assure everyone that adding the sponsors hasn't slowed down the forum in any way.

In fact, it sped it up in a round-about way, because at the same time I updated our caching system which gave us a big boost in speed.

-Ibrahim

 

[DougM]

Generated in 0.074 seconds in which 0.05 seconds were spent on a total of 16 queries. Zlib compression enabled

This is what is at the bottom of the page
I have IE 6
and it STILL is 10 seconds or MORE...
before the page loads
It does not happen on other web pages..
If there is any thing I can do on my end to FIX it PLEASE let me know

DougM