I’m hearing that my webpage is now taking especially long to load (and it may have to do with the SP2 Windows update). Any ideas to tracing what exactly is slowing it the most?
UPDATE: I temporaily removed one of the blogrolls to see if that will make my site faster.
Hmmm…sorta nice to know I’m not the only one experiencing a slow page load on this site.
Humor delayed is no fun 🙁
It looks like it’s choking on your blogroll.
The header image loads instantly but the body takes so long I usually switch to another screen while it loads up, and I have DSL. Sometimes the left-hand column loads instantly too. I think it’s your complicated, image-laced layout.
it’s TTLB stuff. it’s slow most places today.
Frank,
I was thinking it was a Windows problem in general – I use 2000 at work, and it’s sloooowwww there too. I mean, not that I’m reading from work or anything. Just ran a check with Mozilla Firefox, however, and you’re not setting any speed records there, either. Check with Lee at right-thinking; I recall he had a similar problem not that long ago. Unfortunately, it appears he took the search feature off his site, so I can’t find the problem/solution.
I’m not using Windows. Its the blogroll, its hanging on a variety of blogs tonight.
I’m sure it’s just a distraction to keep people from noticing that Dan Rather is basing his entire career from this point forward on “fake, but accurate” documents.
Or something.
Ah Ha! It’s not jus’ me! I mentioned this a month or so ago to you Frank, but I’m stuck w/dial up where I live. Other blogs (not that I read them, of course) take 1/4 the time, minimum. Even at work with a T1, it’s the loooongest loading site I visit. On the bright side, it gives me time to go get an IPA while I’m waiting. But sorry, I haven’t a clue why!
I live in Australia and it’s a long way from where you are (though it’s mostly downhill) so it always takes a while.
Everything is slow today. SP2 can’t affect your page loads, you’re not hosting the page on your workstation and there’s no SP2 for server 2003 yet, and 2000 is up to at least SP3 or 4.
Actually, it’s your random quote generator. I had the code on my page, and it always hung up the load times. 🙁
I’ve had SP2 on for two-three weeks now, and it just started retarding, that’s slow to non music dorks, just today that i noticed.
So, what? Did I start something here? Honest, I did think it was just my machine. Light is always a good thing to shed. 🙂
Actually, the page loaded the fastest I’ve ever seen it load. And it can’t have been from a cache, since you’ve posted since I last looked at the page.
What server technology are you using? It hangs when it’s loading the dynamic content in the middle column, and it’s not hanging on my computer, since there’s no network traffic and no processor usage while it’s hanging, so it’s the server or the code on the server side. If your page uses PHP I can look at the code for you.
Loads fast for me. No cache. Haven’t installed SP2. Cable modem here.
Works fine for me. No SP2 here.
Whether it is the issue or not, SP2 sux. Stay away from SP2 until M$ puts releases the hotfixes to fix their fixes.
Best way to speed up your site is to take away all the text.
Second SarahK here, it is TTLB. Every site I’ve been on today with TTLB links has been s-l-o-o-o-o-w, and the little message at the bottom of Mozilla says, “waiting for TTLB to crank it up!” or something like that. 🙂
still slow as molasses in winter…
or is that mole’s asses……
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I installed SP2 weeks ago, and everything’s been fine until today. Now, your page won’t load at all for me. In fact, I can’t even read this post.
Very funny Spoons.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to notice how slow it has been. The header shows up fast and then I just sit and twiddle my thumbs for awhile.
Since the update, it loaded faster for me.
Still slower than normal, though…
You site always loads fast whenever i vist it. Maybe it because i am in idaho and everything better in idaho
Better here, certainly less than 30sex, but still meandering. 🙁 Yes, header loads straight away…
Powerline / or CQ was having the same problem and tracked it to a blog roll feed. This is the first time your page loaded at all for me today.
Whew! It’s not my computer! Yeah it was loading much faster just now.
Oh No … now it’s loading even before I click on it.
Never seen any change in speed. And I live in eurokistan.
Loading much better now.
yea, I concede (a word Blather should look up) it is a smidgin faster now.
Hey Francesco, when are you leaving eurokistan and coming to visit us here in the great US of A? And which country are you in, Spain? Italy? Italy rocks. I am going there for vacation some day. ) If you are not Italian, sorry. I would also visit Spain, as a belated thank you to Anzar. Frank, when are we going to have cruises and stuff like over at NRO? We could visit Francesco in whatever country he’s in! Wearing NTM t-shirts would be like our dress code, and we could have a good time causing all the Euroweenies to have heart attacks at our Nuke the Mooniness!
Actually, Frank has 4 t-shirts now, that means we could stay for 4 days, if we want to stay longer, Frank has to get busy and make a KTE: MSM shirt …
Next they’ll be kicking dogs and stealing candy from little kids….stoopid heartless muckadoos
just look at their faces. Poor lil girl and her P.O.ed pappy.
It’s been slow for me ever since the redesign with the red background. And it’s very much not an XP/SP2 specific thing.
I’m running Mozilla 1.7.2 under XP SP2, and it’s still S L O W.
Its that near-half-a-megabyte random quote javascript. The thing is damn near 500K in size. Javascripts are run client side, so visitor’s browsers have to download it to run it (except if its in their cache from a recent visit, making the site appear to load faster then).
Good god, 500k? No wonder there were flames involved last time I was stuck on dialup and tried to load IMAO.
“Hey Francesco, when are you leaving eurokistan and coming to visit us here in the great US of A?”
Did it once. Don’t know when I’ll be able to afford it again…
besides, Italy (my country) needs eeevil rightwingin’ capitalistic patriots a lot more than the US does right now.
So I’m staying, who knows, maybe Berlusconi can turn this goddamn socialist country in a US-style democracy. He’ll sure have a lot harder time of it with one less vote.
And Aznar stole Berlusconi’s electoral platform! Ner ner ner ner.
“Frank, when are we going to have cruises and stuff like over at NRO? We could visit Francesco in whatever country he’s in!”
Ha! That I’d LOVE to see. We could organize our own peace (through superior firepower rally). Bring extra shirts to sell, tho, one each is mine.
my computer says it is waiting for truthlaidbare.com when it slows down
“Waiting for rpc.blogrolling.com…”
“truthlaidbare.com” also seems to be holding things up, as well as your random quote, as noted by Ian S.
rpc.blogrolling.com and your random quote seem to be the worst.
A: Your “random quote of the day” isn’t overly long, but just because it’s dynamic will make it take longer. Maybe chop where it can select from, or just handpic it yourself?
B: your page is HUGE. my scroll bar is only 3mm big! chop off old stuff more often and throw it in the archives to help.
wierd, I noticed it loaded faster just now, way before I scrolled down to find your mention of trying to make it load faster. So, I guess it worked.
Loading much faster now than last week. But I am too ignorant to speculate about things like blog rolls java scripts, or random quote generators. Just reporting that, when SP2 was installed last week there did seem to be a correlation with the blog suddenly going really slow. No changes on my end since then, but page loads faster now. So whatever you did was a good thing.