I'm nae one of the folk who is having issues with my speed on the site. But can anyone who was previously having issues please let me know if there is any improvement now? I've been doing a wee bit of tweaking on the site, and believe I might've stumbled across something that may have been slowing several users down ... especially users who are behind multiple firewalls.

 

If you were previously having speed-related issues, can you please let us know here if the site is a bit faster now ... or indeed if there's no change whatsoever!

Yeah I'm running a lot faster now, mate.

 

Any chance you can undo the advice I gave to Dandy_Don re: avatars...my huge avatar is getting too me.

Done!

 

I've re-enabled the avatar resizing. How is the speed now? Still good? Or has the site slowed down again?

I'm unsure - speed was never a problem for me at home but was slow at uni.  I'll check tomorrow what it's like and put a post up.

Yes please, if you could! I believe the issue may now be fixed, but I need as many people who were having speed-related issues to check the site again and report accordingly! Cheers

Reekie,

 

I was having major performance problems from work (not from home though) but your recent changes mean the site is flying from work again.

 

 

Good job fella.

 

It appears that the site wa configured to slow down access if you were browsing through a network that was behind multiple firewalls. Very rarely are home users behind more than one firewall, but offices are quite often behind both hardware AND software firewalls. As such, a lot of people found browsing the site from work a very slow and laborious task. I've since disabled the bit of coding that was affected by these firewalls, and it appears to have paid dividends.

I only get access at home, but i've noticed a major improvement in speed this past few days. Good work Reekie. 

Uni internet access has been on the blink the last couple of days with power cuts cause servers to go down etc. so not been able to check the speed.  I assume it's probably flying though.

Yep. Much better!

Was at work i was getting painful speed problems but now sorted it seems.

I'm at work where I had all the speed problems - now it is nice and nippy 

Yes, it's very fast now.

 

Apologies for taking 5 months to get round to posting this.

Yes, it's very fast now.

 

Apologies for taking 5 months to get round to posting this.

 

Hello Chunk....

I hadn't had an issue with the speed until a couple of days ago, and now it is often very slow. 

I'm the same PGB, paifully slow sometimes. 

It was running like Lee Miller for me earlier on, but it seems be okay tonight.

Up and down like a yo-yo last day or two.

Hmmm. I'll take a look. Nothing's been changed on a configuration level. I know the guy who owns our server was looking to upgrade the memory on the server reasonably soon. Wonder if this had anything to do with it