Is it me or has the site speeded up

[Sporting Bear]

As title

[FourWheelDrift]

Less people logged on at this time of night helps

[Sporting Bear]

But these's also a different look, isn't there?

[Silent1]

I haven't noticed a change

[Mrs Trackside]

I seem to have stopped getting an error message where it chucks me off the server

[Sporting Bear]

I was wrong, the different look was just on first page of Photography & Video

[Balmoral Green]

Speeded up? you must be joking, over the past few weeks I get 'waiting for www.pistonheads.com...' for ages and ages. I open up Outlook, instantaneous, I open other websites, instantaneous too, so it couldnt be my ISP could it? PH has been very slow to respond, on the level of going for a pee or putting the kettle on sometimes while I wait. It just took me three minutes to open page 7 of the Yorkshire barn weekend thread.

Is it something wrong at my end?

[PetrolTed]

Nothing's changed here recently. Speed should be as it has been for the last few months.

[FunkyNige]

Balmoral Green said:

Speeded up? you must be joking, over the past few weeks I get 'waiting for www.pistonheads.com...' for ages and ages. I open up Outlook, instantaneous, I open other websites, instantaneous too, so it couldnt be my ISP could it? PH has been very slow to respond, on the level of going for a pee or putting the kettle on sometimes while I wait. It just took me three minutes to open page 7 of the Yorkshire barn weekend thread.

Is it something wrong at my end?

I get the same in parts of the Gassing Station, often it'll sit loading a page for 10 seconds or so, but if I just press the link again (whilst it should be loading) it'll load instantly.

[Scraggles]

run a speed test like www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk

Download Speed: 6658 kbps (832.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 374 kbps (46.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

suggests a very good reason for instant opening of web pages even with graphics and am playing eve online and so would expect it to be faster than the above

[Vesuvius 996]

Balmoral Green said:

Speeded up? you must be joking, over the past few weeks I get 'waiting for www.pistonheads.com...' for ages and ages. I open up Outlook, instantaneous, I open other websites, instantaneous too, so it couldnt be my ISP could it? PH has been very slow to respond, on the level of going for a pee or putting the kettle on sometimes while I wait. It just took me three minutes to open page 7 of the Yorkshire barn weekend thread.

Is it something wrong at my end?

Me too. Pain in the arse.

[PetrolTed]

Some of the symptoms you describe should disappear next week when I turn off one of the ad servers we use.

[Vesuvius 996]

Blimey! Ted you're still there!!

Thank god.


It has been REALLY frustrating getting error messages and slow loading.

I've actually had to do some work FFS!



Hope life is good....

[Sporting Bear]

BT doing an excellent job for me, it's the fault of these other jonny ips

Spoke with a fellow Bear this afternoon about our site's Home page to find he's looking at that and PH from yesterday ! ? ! he's with enpty hell

[NiceCupOfTea]

FunkyNige said:

Balmoral Green said:

Speeded up? you must be joking, over the past few weeks I get 'waiting for www.pistonheads.com...' for ages and ages. I open up Outlook, instantaneous, I open other websites, instantaneous too, so it couldnt be my ISP could it? PH has been very slow to respond, on the level of going for a pee or putting the kettle on sometimes while I wait. It just took me three minutes to open page 7 of the Yorkshire barn weekend thread.

Is it something wrong at my end?

I get the same in parts of the Gassing Station, often it'll sit loading a page for 10 seconds or so, but if I just press the link again (whilst it should be loading) it'll load instantly.

Exactly what I've been getting, for about the last 3 months. Hellishly frustrating, it can take several minutes, but then a couple of refreshes will have it coming down instantly.

Also have the same problem with posting - click "submit reply", and it greys out while it waits. And nothing. Hit stop and refresh a few times and "Submit Reply" ungreys. Click, and it posts.

Happens almost every time. I wonder if we actually get pages [in general] down any quicker now than we did 10 years ago with 14.4k modems?

[submit reply] [stop] [refresh] [stop] [refresh] [stop] [refresh].....

[NiceCupOfTea]

Anybody finding this even worse today?

seem to be spending half my browsing time hammering refresh, and posts never submit first time.

ETA: apart from this one....

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Friday 9th February 13:08

[Vesuvius 996]

It's since Ted sold up.

*sigh*

[skeggysteve]

No don't think it's more of of problem than 'before'.

I have alway had this 'problem' - I just click refresh if the page doesn't load within a few seconds, not a big deal really.

Personally I think the site has got quicker after Ted 'sold out' (good on you Ted) but that may just be me?

It could be a FF issue but have not checked with IE 'cos I don't have it on the desktop!

Laptop has IE (6) on it but I not tried PH on it, only really use it for work.

Just a thought.....I sometimes have the same problem (needing to click refresh) on some other sites.

Ted having the cash to do a 24 hour race has nothing to do with site problems Just a shame it's the new circuit

[PetrolTed]

Vesuvius 996 said:

It's since Ted sold up.

*sigh*

[PetrolTed]

Me selling up has had absolutely no bearing on technical matters.

Watch this space - I hope to be able to deliver some performance improvements this week.