Forum running slow... ad related

[thebraketester]

Anyone else finding that the performance of the forum is making it almost unusable?

Ads seem to be taking ages to load.


Coincidence?

[mintybiscuit]

Yup.
The same here. I only came here to see if anyone else was having issues.

[anonymous-user]

I've tried to reply 3 times and each time it has taken me to a different sub forum. It's borked again

[craig1912]

Yep- on an iPad it isn't useable- tried three different browsers and same on all.

On my Mac it is slow but not too bad

[bazza white]

I thought my phone was borked.


Its laggy as hell and opens the wrong clicks.

[Doofus]

Whatever they did for a hour and a half yesterday has completely fked it more/again.

[maxdb]

It's really slow here and laggy plus when I click on a thread a different one to what I want opens?

[thebraketester]

maxdb said:

It's really slow here and laggy plus when I click on a thread a different one to what I want opens?

It’s like lucky dip.

[Tebbers]

bazza white said:

I thought my phone was borked.


Its laggy as hell and opens the wrong clicks.

Exactly the same here. iPhone and iPad. What have they done?!

[ruhall]

Painfully slow.

It's also doing strange things with text; specifically missing text in a post (although showing before originally posted), but when trying to edit, missing text is shown, but still not showing in text again after submitted.

[kiethton]

Yes, horrendously slow, basically unusable here

Not sure if it’s ad related - running Adblock plus

[fat80b]

Glad it's not jut me then, but PH elves, please fix it.

[Jasper3.0]

kiethton said:

Yes, horrendously slow, basically unusable here

Not sure if it’s ad related - running Adblock plus

Same here on an iPad. Sooooooook slooooowwwwwwww

[B'stard Child]

Been fine all evening for me

[Butter Face]

I thought it was just me

It’s terribly slow, makes the forum completely unusable!

[johnoz]

Yep me too, just keep getting the beachball, taking forever

Is this the start of things to come now its sold.

[GR_TVR]

Just keep getting the beachball on my Mac with Safari - with or without adblock enabled.

Tried it on Chrome, seems a lot better from a quick look.

[eltawater]

Key javascript culprits appear to originate from:

stats.g.doubleclick.net
sb.scorecardresearch.com (38 requests!)
images.outbrainimg.com
widgets.outbrain.com

Looks like there's some page shifting involved somewhere (trying to resize to put some big banner ads in?) which ultimately leaves you tapping / clicking on one thing, but the delay in loading the page means that by the time it's worked out you've clicked, the page has shifted down downwards, so you end up at a topic 4-5 lines above where you've clicked.

[NomduJour]

Pages only part-loading, long delay to all link clicks and attempts to post.

[thebraketester]

NomduJour said:

Pages only part-loading, long delay to all link clicks and attempts to post.

Whilst it waits for the outbrain st to load and format correctly.

What a shower of st

Edited by thebraketester on Wednesday 5th December 11:37