Lag time for forum graphics

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

Is it something on my end or are others also experiencing a slowdown in the forum's graphics (background, center section, colors, etc.). It's not constant, but when it happens, I click on my bookmark or an email notification and the first thing to show up is just the forum's text, and then the design elements blink into being.

Barbara

[im42n8 Profile Private messageWebsite]

I think this may be a browser issue. The cascade style sheets (and other formatting stuff) may take a bit of time to be read and processed. Until then, the basic underlying code is displayed... and there's little, if any, information in the text that's initially read.

Dale

[obeeone Profile Private message]

Everything appears to be ok here in the land down under.

Carl

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

It must be just a bit more than the browser because, for instance, it didn't happen just now when I came here. It's periodic and recent. Odd. Could well be my own internet connection, which I swear has been slowing down.

Barbara

[DickK Profile Private messageWebsite]

FWIW, I've seen that kind of issue occasionally but not in the last few months.

Dick

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

If no one is seeing it but me, then for sure, it's something on my end of things.

Barbara

[tdew Profile Private message]

Everything is fine here. Could it be something that's running in the background on your computer?

[DickK Profile Private messageWebsite]

Barbara -- have you tried another browser to access the site? if not, that's what I'd do just to eliminate that as an issue. You could also clear the browser cache and/or deinstall/reinstall and see if that makes any difference.
Dick

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

Everything is fine here. Could it be something that's running in the background on your computer?

That's altogether possible. The only time I come to the forum without any software up and running is first thing in the morning, which is the case right now, and though the forum was typically slow to come up, I saw no plain text. Another major forum I belong to is extremely fast, so I doubt that part is a personal issue. Generally, what's running in the background is either Producer or my (mammoth) 64-bit music software.

Dick, the cache is automatically cleared when I close Firefox, so that can't be it. However, if I have a span of time in which the anomaly is consistent, I'll try Chrome. Good idea!

Barbara

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

So I've been testing things here, and what I've found is that Chrome is definitely a faster browser, but I've also found that this forum is running very slowly. All other sites come up quickly. It could be that the forum is in need of housekeeping, but poor Mike has had more than enough on his plate over the past months. Hey, he and Rotchana must be here in the U.S!

Barbara

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

While I wouldn't rule out you being the problem I am also seeing things loading slow today on the forum. Hard to tell if it is a server issue (overloaded or ??) or somewhere else in the broad expanse of the world of Ethernet where bits go all sorts of odd directions to get between point A and point B

mikey

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

Doesn't everything go to China first?

Barbara

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

If you have a firewall that logs incoming connection attempts, you will be amazed (frightened) by how many of them come FROM that area. You may be right though - it may get routed through there (actually, that is completely possible that some of your traffic does go through there. TCP packets can take some very strange paths depending on how the big routers are configured and what the loads are.

mikey

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

Just imagine all that information flying every which way, circumnavigating the globe, colliding, mushing, turning into something ungodly that will one day go nova. Do you suppose this is what the Maya foresaw?

Barbara

[gpsmikey Profile Private message]

You should see the path data takes when the program I am associated with (Sea Launch) is going to and from the ships during a launch. It involves data relay satellites, ground stations, phone lines and a number of other paths. On the other hand, I can sit at my desk at work and log into the unix computers on the ships when they are out on the equator for a launch just like they were right next to me

mikey