I Dont Like Change Not One Bit !

[Johanna]

Is anyone other than Cascabel experiencing slow loading of pages? I'm hearing that the board is much faster than it was, and it certainly is at my computer.

[electrathon]

Yesterday afternoon I counted 17 seconds to load the main page.

10 seconds to load the main page now. As a referance, craigslist loads in less than one second.

Edited September 30, 2012 by electrathon

[LNLeather]

I have noticed that around certain times of the day is when my computer loads pages slower.

During the week it is 8:30am to 9:30, around noon to 1:pm, around 3;pm and then around 8:pm.

these times coincide with when people get to work, take breaks and then after dinner - as in when

the most people are all on-line.

I wonder if the slow loading maybe has nothing to do with this site.....

[electrathon]

I wonder if the slow loading maybe has nothing to do with this site.....

Of course it is a posability. But when almost every other site on the net loads faster than this site, the fingers point at this one. As I said, this site, 10 seconds, craigs list, less than one.

Before the big crash this site always loaded well. After the crash the software was changed and things hit the brakes. When this update happened the other day things were faster. As more and more was altered and added, things slowed again. It is still faster than a couple weeks ago, but dead slow compared to the modern internet. I am not a tech person. I have no real data except a second hand on a watch. My guess is that the software is clumsly written so things talk longer than it needs to. Also there is so much fluff loaded that layer after layer needs to load, it all takes time. I generally try to stay off the main page, I go to "view new content" and if I do not see it there I figure it is lost. The pages load faster that way.

I am not complaining. I know that this site is ran by volunteers. Just a statement, the question was asked.

[Cascabel]

Just to give an example....... I clicked on LEATHERWORKER.NET at the top of this page, and it took a full minute and 56 seconds for the page to open. I consider it fully opened when I am able to scroll the page. Apparently there is LOTS of garbage loading in the background. This is the only website that I have problems with. It used to work fine before the "improvements" !!!

[Johanna]

I have tried every browser, several different computers and 2 different ISPs and always the board is faster now than it was before the update. On my computer it's point and click. Cascabel, there is not a lot of "garbage" loading in the background- actually a lot less is loading compared to the old board. What kind of computer do you have? Connection? What kind of browser do you use? Have you cleared your cookies recently? Anyone else experiencing slow page loading times? Almost all the mail to me mentions how much faster the board is now, so I am eager to troubleshoot the problem. Even during peak periods, no page is taking longer than 3 seconds to load for me.

~J

[electrathon]

It does load faster than it used to 3 weeks ago. It is slower than it was when the update was first done. It is a lot slower than every other forum I try.

Computer is less than a year old that I am on (and have tried from 2 other computers. Fastest cable internet I can get. Running explorer.

As I have stated before, I am not a tech, but this board was before and continues to be the slowest forum to navigate that I go to. I do understand that possibly I can reconfigure my computer to be able to run this one forum faster (don't know how, just acepting that it is a posibility). It does seem that when the rest of the internet runs perfectly it is likely not on this end.

The fact that people are commenting on the speed differance screams that something was/is really wrong. Modern internet should load so fast that a doubling of the speed should be almost undetectable. A slow site that takes 3 seconds to load going to 2 seconds makes small differance. A dirt slow site that takes 15 second to load going to 10 seconds is a huge noticable improvement, but still horibly slow.

I just went through my favorites file and clicked into many random sites. 3 seconds was the slowest, many in less than one second to load. I then clicked into the main forum page and it took 8 seconds.

Edited September 30, 2012 by electrathon

[bruce johnson]

I have it saved to favorites. Mine is running about 3 seconds per page to load. I use a cellular modem through Verizon. Once in a while on any site, there can be a "lag-time" when I click to go to a new page, It may be anywhere from 3-10 seconds but once it starts the page loads in about 3 seconds. A few forums are faster for me. They are the ones with plain Jane headers and no avatars. Some load slower that have more header ads.

[Nick69]

Mobile site on HTC One X is fine. Blue in colour and all sections and log in work fine.

[Cascabel]

I have tried every browser, several different computers and 2 different ISPs and always the board is faster now than it was before the update. On my computer it's point and click. Cascabel, there is not a lot of "garbage" loading in the background- actually a lot less is loading compared to the old board. What kind of computer do you have? Connection? What kind of browser do you use? Have you cleared your cookies recently? Anyone else experiencing slow page loading times? Almost all the mail to me mentions how much faster the board is now, so I am eager to troubleshoot the problem. Even during peak periods, no page is taking longer than 3 seconds to load for me.

~J

A bit faster now....... One minute and 12 seconds on average to change pages. I have an HP Pavilion, running Windows XP, using Internet Explorer for a browser, Cookies cleared out every day, ATT DSL service. The only other pages I have problems with are ones that are loaded up with advertising, which Leatherworker.net is not. For instance, I quit using Yahoo because all the advertising caused the pages to load very slowly.

I never had any speed issues with the old board at all. It's only been since the "improvements".....