Is this slowness only affecting me?

[Mr Noble]

For some weeks now I've found PH really annoying to use.



One moment it works like lightning as usual and one click later it takes 30 seconds plus to open a page.



I'm forever writing posts and then submitting only to watch the circler spinning in IE7 for 2 minuts before having to shut the page down and start again.





I thought the recent fixes and new style was going to sort everything but it stil seems very "sticky"





Anyone else got the same?



Greg

[Mr Noble]

Title should read "slowness" not clowness. Never went to typing lessons.

[900T-R]

No you're not alone - the time it takes to serve up a page is as variable as ever...

[Mr Noble]

Any news on this yet?







I'm pulling my hair out here! One moment everythiungs fine, the next, pages just sit there all locked up.





Keep giving up and looking at other sites instead!

[calorus]

I've just had quite a while at that, I assumed it was my end, for some reason - benefit of the doubt and all that.

[Mrs Fish]

I have had it for a while now too. Its deffo PH because I can go to another website and it works fine.

[Forthright MC]

Mrs Fish said:

I have had it for a while now too. Its deffo PH because I can go to another website and it works fine.

same thing happens to me and thats exactly what i do!



it does definetely seem to be taking its time loading threads, sending reply's etc.

Edited by Forthright MC on Wednesday 23 May 21:11

[Mrs Trackside]

Forthright MC said:

Mrs Fish said:

I have had it for a while now too. Its deffo PH because I can go to another website and it works fine.

same thing happens to me and thats exactly what i do!



it does definetely seem to be taking its time loading threads, sending reply's etc.

Me too. I've been saying it for months though. I don't seem to have the same problems with any other websites, only PH

[trooperiziz]

Mrs Trackside said:

Forthright MC said:

Mrs Fish said:

I have had it for a while now too. Its deffo PH because I can go to another website and it works fine.

same thing happens to me and thats exactly what i do!



it does definetely seem to be taking its time loading threads, sending reply's etc.

Me too. I've been saying it for months though. I don't seem to have the same problems with any other websites, only PH

I'm certain it's to do with the ad servers. Whenever it freezes for me, it's always trying to pull and ad from a server somewhere at the time. It's been like this for a good year or more.

[Mr Noble]

Rather counter productive for the ad payers that they really aggrevate everyone. At best we're supposed to look at them, not get pi55ed off with them destroying the nice surfing experience!

[Balmoral Green]

I have had the odd moan about this on and off for a good few months now. PH is easily the least responsive website I now visit. When PH has slowed to a crawl or locked completely, I can open Outlook or IE and load other sites pages instantaneously. Submitting a post is one long 'submit' wait ages for nothing to happen, hit 'back' then forwards, resubmit, repeat. Just clicking on stuff to open it can take ages too, so I wander off elsewhere. Many a time I have given up completely and just closed my browser and cleared off.

PistonheadsIT, slow matters.

[SteveHall]

This happens to me all the time, really frustrating. That and the general feeling that most forums seem to be going downhill at a rapid rate (witness the suicide thread on p&p at the moment) make me wonder why I bother a lot of the time.

I started off (when it was petrolheads) just looking to see if there was any interesting stuff on the TVR/Wedge forum and I seem to be going full circle and going back to that. Too frustrating for much more than that!

A suggestion was made to me that the reason was that the whole site is built around Microsoft servers?

[Balmoral Green]

Just now for example, took three minutes and nine seconds (from when I decided to time it) of repeated clicking to get to 'Gassing Station'. Three minutes doesn't sound very long, but its an age for something that is supposed to take about a second. Then to get to 'Website feedback' was about 20 seconds, same to load this topic, and about 10 seconds from post reply to get to this box i'm typing in.

Gonna hit submit now, and see how long.

[Balmoral Green]

Damn, it was only about four seconds

[srebbe64]

Seems very slow to post for me too!

I think Ted needs to press "Ctrl, Alt, Del" to get the thing sorted!

[Balmoral Green]

Is it ever going to be fixed then?

Getting a bit narked with the time outs...






Firefox can't find the server at www.pistonheads.com.

Server not found

[Mrs Trackside]

Balmoral Green said:

Firefox can't find the server at www.pistonheads.com.

Server not found

It's found it now, but it took ages. I'm using IE at the moment as that seems (marginally) quicker than FF

[becca_viola]

Mr Noble said:

Rather counter productive for the ad payers that they really aggrevate everyone. At best we're supposed to look at them, not get pi55ed off with them destroying the nice surfing experience!

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Likewise.

I've no objection at all to ads being there, fair play and all that but I've had some REALLY slow patches lately.

PH Hamster-Masters: would it help if we tried to note page/ad involved or anything?

[Forthright MC]

someone needs to give the main server a good kick this evening, as it has frozen up on me several times and it took me about 5 and a half minutes to get back on here a little while ago!

Edited by Forthright MC on Thursday 7th June 22:40

[Mrs Trackside]

How ironic! It got stuck leaving this thread, so I thought I'd come back to tell you all, and it stuck again. Then I hit the reply button and it stuck again. It took almost a minute for me to have the Reply to Topic screen.

Maybe Haymarket don't give a toss that it's pissing off the locals.