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Exactly the same. It has been slow like this for me since FR came back online.

I get a little irritated with the people saying oh, it’s just you, or it’s the Internet.

It isn’t.

When I surf any other site, home or at work, other websites are fine. When I surf FR home or at work, I click, the load bar goes about a quarter of a way, stops there, and...sometimes it eventually goes...sometimes it doesn’t. I get into the habit of letting it try to load, I kill it, reload, and then it goes a bit quicker. Other websites don’t have this issue.

This is the same on Chrome on Windows, IE on Windows, Safari on Mac, and Safari on IOS.

There is something wrong with the web services at FR, IMO. Perhaps one of their multiple web servers managed by load balancer(s) is having a problem (I assume they would have multiple web servers) might be bad, and if you get sent to a poorly functioning web server, the behavior of killing it and getting a new request for a web page might send you to a different web server that is working fine.

I know in some systems I work with, there is a sticky persistence when you make a request from an IP address, you are remembered, and routed by default that same way every time, so...if you get a bad one, you will keep getting a bad one until the poorly functioning web server is fixed.

I bet dollars to donuts that Jim has a funky web server under his load balancer. I am not an web sysadmin, but I do deal with systems like this that involve web servers and load balancers, and occasionally have to try to get the issues fixed with a funky web server. And those problems look like this.

In fairness, it can be very, very difficult to track down which one is problematic unless you have some way to correlate poorly performing web requests coming from multiple areas. Otherwise, it looks completely random and can drive you crazy.

Jim Rob, love your website. I’ll keep using it, and this will be the only complaint you will hear from me. But it is annoying...I’ll stop complaining now.