FloatingFatMan Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 ^ Well, you could always get rid of that social network garbage! It's useless anyway! :p remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted November 23, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2012 ^ Well, you could always get rid of that social network garbage! It's useless anyway! :p Sadly its not, least on articles. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted November 23, 2012 Administrators Share Posted November 23, 2012 The page Alexa - The Web Information Company got an overall PageSpeed Score of 60 (out of 100). Learn more The page Neowin - Where unprofessional journal... got an overall PageSpeed Score of 92 (out of 100).Learn more I'm not sure what's slowing us down other than 3rd party javascript (social media and ads). I'm not trying to defend anything.. if it feels slow then it is slow but I'm not sure what more we can do edit: the site is fast for me atm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted November 23, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2012 Site seems fine to me except for when you post it sometimes takes about 15 seconds to post Also regarding the money thing its mostly crap It says my sites earns over ?2000 per month, if that was the case i would not work as many hours as i am lol Guth 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo1911 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Neowin has become slow since past few months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Size of the main page (with images) is roughly 770kb, without facebook it'd been even less, same with the twitter crap as well. Go compare it to other sites where you have 7mb main pages (verge :p) Something is wrong when someone says it's acceptable to have a 770kb home page. Guth 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game_over Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Network test: i should point out the actual page loaded to a viewable state after around 4 or 5 seconds, but thats still quite excessive, i think it's basically the sheer size of the content being loaded on top of 3rd party data. The second longed load request for me in this instance was the actual page, then in at 2nd some 3rd party thing. Request URL: http://www.neowin.ne...ow/page__st__45 151 requests ? 369.77KB transferred ? 17.84s (onload: 12.70s, DOMContentLoaded: 3.22s) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jub Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 What do you mean slow, does it take forever for the page to START to load, or the whole experience? It's the processing of the content that takes a while, serving the content is quick. As I mentioned previously, either your PHP processing or SQL queries are taking a long time. There are many things you can do to improve this, unless it's been done already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted November 23, 2012 Administrators Share Posted November 23, 2012 There is a difference between the main news page and the forums. IPB is not fast and we can't do much about it. The main page is optimized and should be very fast (when IPB isn't slowing the whole site down, no social media and ads disabled) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted November 23, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2012 Something is wrong when someone says it's acceptable to have a 770kb home page. Care to explain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jub Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 IPB is not fast and we can't do much about it. Your screenshot shows that the home page is slow. One second load when everything is fetched from the cache. Also, IPB has got support for APC, Memcached and other systems. Do you have that set up? Realpath caching? Query caching? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted November 23, 2012 Administrators Share Posted November 23, 2012 I tried bbc.co.uk, cnn.com and theverge.com and news.google.com and they are all as fast or slower than our main page. These sites are all considered slow according to Alexa We use memcached and query caching Our forum page takes at least twice as long to load as our main page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDogsBed Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 There is no doubt that over the last few weeks this site has become much slower. I'm glad it's been raised actually as I was starting to think it must be my connection, even though other sites seemed to be loading at their usual speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted November 23, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2012 We've trimmed another 200kb off the main page. Forums will not be touched tho :p /me runs away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Forums will not be touched tho :p /me runs away :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted November 23, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2012 JQuery is what is godawful for me. Often, posts take forever to go up and sometimes they never do at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted November 23, 2012 Administrators Share Posted November 23, 2012 jQuery is not used on the forums only on main, I guess you mean ajax (prototype). If we were to refresh the page it would talk just as long or longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 There is a difference between the main news page and the forums. IPB is not fast and we can't do much about it. The main page is optimized and should be very fast (when IPB isn't slowing the whole site down, no social media and ads disabled) The forums is most definitely the slowest part of the website, I run with NoScript (Neowin Whitelisted) and Ghostery (which is not whitelisted cause I want it to block social media links and other things), the main site works fine. But pretty much every day there is a point where I hit refresh on a Neowin Forum tab, change to other tabs to read things on other sites, then later switch back to the neowin forum tab. When it happens I easily have to wait 10-20 seconds for the forum tab to fully load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted November 24, 2012 Member Share Posted November 24, 2012 What do you mean slow, does it take forever for the page to START to load, or the whole experience? Twice tonight (my time) Neowin has either slowed to the speed of molasses or stopped working entirely for a bit. The other times, it loads normal. The slowed or stopped periods don't last very long, usually from 5 to 10 minutes. But they always seem to happen every night. Sometimes once, sometimes more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Care to explain?Dial-up. Enough said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffMathy Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 I proposed a solution to this here (https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1121874-a-solution-to-the-neowin-slow-load-problems/). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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