Posted on 02/20/2017 5:50:10 PM PST by RoosterRedux
I love FR, Jim, and all of you guys.
I am a faithful monthly contributor
But FR is so incredibly slow to load.
Is it my IP or is it my alternative reality?
I have a very fast internet service but FR is the slowest site to download.
Perhaps I am not logged in...
That tracker should not really add any load time.
I have a massively heavy-graphics website with Stat Counter, Google analytics tracker *and* AdSense on it and it loads in a heartbeat.
Steam Punk Internet
the point is why have a tracker
I just checked and it does load marginally faster/better on Internet Exploder than my memory-hogging bloatware Chrome browser.
On iPhone’s Safari, it’s just a mess.
Oh, and I also happen to be a programmer, and offered this just last night:
O/T: I *just* saw evidence of counter-lock in this thread. FR’s seizing up because the code, when someone is filling out a reply, runs out and increments the counter and locks the thread_comment_key even though nobody’s hit post yet. I’ve seen this a few times over the years. Change the write to the counter to happen after hitting post and the bottleneck should clear up.
Tell Jim.
I use it to see how many visitors I get, where they come from, what browsers they use, how long they stay, what keywords are used, where they enter/exit, and what pages get more hits.
It’s a business site so I need to know where any problems may lie, in my pages.
No idea if that is why it’s being used here.
I would *guess* so.
I am on an iPhone over Sprint or Comcast, depending upon if I'm home.
It works better over Sprint between those two.
I did, pinged Jim and John last night. Counter locks are the biggest bottleneck software can produce, and I saw it live last night when my post grabbed the next counter_no, and held the thread until my post posted, then everybody else’s rapidly loaded.
It happens when there is a sudden high-interest thread that everybody jumps on. Database counters seize up.
It loads slow for me most of the time. It really does not bother me, except during high traffic times, such as voting time, inauguration, major news events, etc.
Some will remark as to all the money FR takes in. Yes it does, but betcha there are expenses too. And the folks that do the work should not have to do it for free. I suspect the vast majority are getting what they pay for.
Did it crash Election night?I know it crash On inauguration Day for 3 days.Webmaster said he could get it up and it would be slow.
Do you work for set Design at the BBC? That looks like something off the TARDIS in Doctor Who. All “timey wimey”.
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Hi Rooster. FR for me is lightning fast, always. I live way up in the Mountains with crazy weather/snow (Lots of it!!!)/rain/sleet/Fog etc. etc. and I NEVER have a problem, unless there is a full complete meltdown. Thank God for FR.
I have advanced from black widow to Female Praying Mantis, and have advised dear Messr Rooster of same.
(bad girl smooch)
It’s the portable time machine retrieved from the Moorlocks ...
I lived with this until a few days ago.
Then I had to re-boot my wireless router for an unrelated reason. When it finished re-booting, FR was quite a lot faster.
I then cleared my cache (temporary internet and website files, also cookies and website data).
However, that had no effect that I could perceive.
But rebooting the router definitely helped.
nutmeg, I’m in CT and I don’t have a problem, we use Charter.
As you know, the feed for your computer goes through many places before it gets to your server. Somewhere along the way to Cox Cable it’s not getting through fast enough. It’s not your computer.
Ah, yes now I see it.
=^)
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