Pistonheads site freezing Chrome browser

Pistonheads site freezing Chrome browser

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RacingPete

8,846 posts

203 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Alapeno said:
Setup...
Thank you, very useful - I think that it is a combination of factors causing the issues and not a golden bullet to solve this, so we are working on optimisation while I work with the ad team to try and limit ad serving by connection speed or device.

wildman0609

885 posts

175 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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i'm having the same problem, every time I load pistonheads home page or go straight to the forums, it crashes then i have to force quit everytime.

this is only effecting chrome, i am posting from Opera. for the record I'm running a 2012 mac book air, with no other programs in the back ground, I struggle to give any more technical info than that, sorry.

bitchstewie

50,813 posts

209 months

Friday 19th September 2014
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I had the same issue.

If it help I'm using a Sky broadband supplied router and was just using the default DNS settings which are to use the router (which in turn uses Sky's DNS servers) - my gut was that it was a DNS issue so I swapped to use Google's public DNS and it hasn't happened since.

Kinky

39,456 posts

268 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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bhstewie said:
If it help I'm using a Sky broadband supplied router and was just using the default DNS settings which are to use the router (which in turn uses Sky's DNS servers) - my gut was that it was a DNS issue so I swapped to use Google's public DNS and it hasn't happened since.
ears

Could you write up what needs to be done.

FiF

43,965 posts

250 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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bhstewie said:
I had the same issue.

If it help I'm using a Sky broadband supplied router and was just using the default DNS settings which are to use the router (which in turn uses Sky's DNS servers) - my gut was that it was a DNS issue so I swapped to use Google's public DNS and it hasn't happened since.
What about download speeds?

I had the same issue with Talktalk (Tiscali) and while changing to Google dns servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 cured the DNS errors download speeds for big files dropped.

Also how does it affect your download allowances if at all? I am now also on Sky unlimited and the sky+ box uses acres of download on catch up box sets etc. Always assumed that this was handled well by going through sky servers.

Incidentally also suffering same problem with PH and chrome. Just exercise a bit of patience and wait for the ads to load before scrolling. Trying to avoid an ad blocker as it all helps to pay for the site unless I'm a dummy and don't understand how these things work. That is probably true tbh.

bitchstewie

50,813 posts

209 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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Kinky said:
ears

Could you write up what needs to be done.
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using
http://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-o...

It's literally change it, if it makes no difference change it back.

bitchstewie

50,813 posts

209 months

Saturday 20th September 2014
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FiF said:
What about download speeds?

I had the same issue with Talktalk (Tiscali) and while changing to Google dns servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 cured the DNS errors download speeds for big files dropped.

Also how does it affect your download allowances if at all? I am now also on Sky unlimited and the sky+ box uses acres of download on catch up box sets etc. Always assumed that this was handled well by going through sky servers.

Incidentally also suffering same problem with PH and chrome. Just exercise a bit of patience and wait for the ads to load before scrolling. Trying to avoid an ad blocker as it all helps to pay for the site unless I'm a dummy and don't understand how these things work. That is probably true tbh.
It won't make any difference to download allowances, all DNS does (massively simplifying) it tell your computer what IP address to go to when you visit www.pistonheads.com.

It also won't make any difference to download speeds.

RacingPete

8,846 posts

203 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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bhstewie said:
I had the same issue.

If it help I'm using a Sky broadband supplied router and was just using the default DNS settings which are to use the router (which in turn uses Sky's DNS servers) - my gut was that it was a DNS issue so I swapped to use Google's public DNS and it hasn't happened since.
Interesting... gives us some more things to think about when analysing this issue. Thank you.

rscott

14,691 posts

190 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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RacingPete said:
bhstewie said:
I had the same issue.

If it help I'm using a Sky broadband supplied router and was just using the default DNS settings which are to use the router (which in turn uses Sky's DNS servers) - my gut was that it was a DNS issue so I swapped to use Google's public DNS and it hasn't happened since.
Interesting... gives us some more things to think about when analysing this issue. Thank you.
IIRC, Sky have their 'Broadband Shield' - 'safe' surfing filter. It's possible they were blocking some aspect of the site - they're done by DNS, not url filtering.

RacingPete

8,846 posts

203 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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rscott said:
IIRC, Sky have their 'Broadband Shield' - 'safe' surfing filter. It's possible they were blocking some aspect of the site - they're done by DNS, not url filtering.
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bitchstewie

50,813 posts

209 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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rscott said:
IIRC, Sky have their 'Broadband Shield' - 'safe' surfing filter. It's possible they were blocking some aspect of the site - they're done by DNS, not url filtering.
I'd be surprised if it's that since I've never asked for it and I've never had any issues visiting other sites that you might expect to be blocked for whatever reason if it was on.

Le Mans Visitor

1,119 posts

201 months

Saturday 27th September 2014
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Not just me with this issue then. I have now sorted it by installing 'Adblock' (it blocked 277 adverts in 1 day, just on Pistonheads)

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/...

Alapeno

Original Poster:

1,391 posts

146 months

Tuesday 7th October 2014
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For what it's worth, this issue seems to be resolved on my mac for now. Not sure if you've done anything behind the scenes but it looks to be working fine.

No more Safari biggrin

bitchstewie

50,813 posts

209 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Terrible performance lately with "resolving host" and this is with Google DNS.

Wonder what's going to happen on September 1st when Chrome starts blocking Flash ads?

Also are there any plans to sort out the st rendering if you have a small browser window?

I'm looking at this now and have a massive Graypaul advert at the top of the page covering the Pistonheads logo - it looks appalling biggrin