Complaints about the forum being slow

[Gunexpert007]

The site works perfect for me . I use Bell Fibre Op , with Chrome browser........

[RobertMcC]

It might depending on what version of Vbulletin they are running.

We keep ours up to date, and some browsers don't update right away

Well to be honest. This site was the slowest using the same browsers. Using youtube, FB, CGN, CAF and other forums. There wasn't 10 second loading times.

But since fixing the un secure issue. The site has been faster.

[chuckbuster]

what browser are you using if you don't mind me asking.

I'm using Chrome. But as of just now, I've been able to move seamlessly between pages within a thread, but, opening a new thread or going to a new page still takes 10 or 15s to load.

What province are you in?

What happens if you do a tracert?

[ATTACH=CONFIG]10271[/ATTACH]

I'm in Ontario. How does one do a "tracert"?

[Magi]

I am having issues today also, I use and have tried both Chrome and Opera and both have the exact same issue. I did not have this problem yesterday until around 10:30 pm, when I turned my desktop off. The problem stated this morning when I powered up my computer at around 8:30 am. My issue is as follows

The main page loads fast and displays correctly:


If slect the "What's New at GOC" tab, the page takes 5 to 10 seconds to load and displays incorrectly:


Wile the displays is wrong, the search only takes 0.03 seconds, if I click the last message icon (>>) for any of the threads on this page, the resultant page is correctly formated but take 5 to 10 seconds to load.

A week or so ago I had similar issue with speed and formating but they automagically correct themselves!

All a mystery to me


UPDATE: Interestingly, I only have the above issue if I use the "What's New at GOC?" tab, if I go from the main page to any forum/thread all is well!

[Run 'n' Gun]

Maybe it's linked to ISP providers?

I'm on Firefox/Telus, everything just flies along fine.

[Smc]

I think it’s a provider issue. I had the same slowness this morning. Chrome on an iphone 6s. Wifi 50mbps. 5-10 seconds for any goc page. Cgn worked fine. I switched to cellular, and bam - full speed on goc

[FALover]

Well, my download speed is 126mbs; don't know if that's good or not. But, I do know that GOC is the only site where I have to wait 5, 10 or 20 seconds for a page to load or refresh. And now, the "what's new" page shows up old school with everything crammed together and almost unreadable.

Oh, and the speed issues occur regardless of where I am and what device I'm using.

This is what I am experiencing as well. All other sites is click and there you are. Here I click and wait 10+ seconds to get to the forum I want. Click and wait another 10 seconds+ to get to the next page. Firefox is what I am on and the lagging happens here 24/7 and has done so since about the time the servers were changed/swapped/upgraded. My ebay is fine, other forums are fine, emails are fine, etc. Video streaming is very good as well.

[Drache]

After the big change up on the server I was getting slow response times. I cleared my browser cache and my cookies and everything was back to normal. I would also suggest flushing the DNS cache and see if that helps.

[Magi]

I would also suggest flushing the DNS cache and see if that helps.

Excuse the ignorance but where/how do you do that?

[RangeBob]

I would also suggest flushing the DNS cache and see if that helps.

Excuse the ignorance but where/how do you do that?

I doubt that DNS has anything to do with this, but ...

In Windows, run Command Prompt as an administrator, and then

ipconfig /flushdns

In everything {Windows, Mac, whatever},

reboot

will virtually certainly also flush the DNS.

[chuckbuster]

This is what I am experiencing as well. All other sites is click and there you are. Here I click and wait 10+ seconds to get to the forum I want. Click and wait another 10 seconds+ to get to the next page. Firefox is what I am on and the lagging happens here 24/7 and has done so since about the time the servers were changed/swapped/upgraded. My ebay is fine, other forums are fine, emails are fine, etc. Video streaming is very good as well.

My issues started at exactly this time as well.

[Magi]

I doubt that DNS has anything to do with this, but ...

Thanks RangeBob.

[RangeBob]

jwirecom

Everything's much better today.

I typed in a long list of what was slow with timings for each kind of click into a post in Chuckbuster's recent thread 'site speed again', but you closed the thread and my post wouldn't post and I couldn't get the details back. I might have private messaged you then, but you said "please do not reopen it again" which lead me to wonder if there was a Denial Of Service or something going on you didn't want to talk about.

Good

1) https://gunownersofcanada.ca/
For weeks, this took 30 seconds to appear.
Today, it's instantanious.

2) "Unread private messages" / "Inbox", 17 seconds
But the mess that appeared the past few days seems to have been fixed. The menu is back.

3) when opening a thread via "Go to first new post" it has been taking 30 seconds,
but today it's under 4 seconds which is fine.

4) quoting messages works fast again (I quit quoting weeks ago, and started entering [ quote ] manually.). The Quick Reply box for the past couple of weeks took 15 seconds to appear even after the rest of the thread appeared, now it's there instantly. Several have commented that the Like button failed a lot.

ok
5) Http images have disappered. [ img ] only works with https images now.

bad

6) Attach image via file upload, doesn't work. No Browse button.

7) "Advanced Search" and "Single Search Content Type" tab within search, take 20 seconds each to appear, even when pushing the browser's BACK button.
A month ago "Single Search Content Type" was often so quick that sometimes I would wait for it to change and it would take me a few seconds to realize it must have changed in a tenth of a second and I missed the change happening it was so fast.

8) "What's new at GOC", Tab changes instantly, but body of page shows this



In Firefox, going to "about:cache" to get the cache file directory, and then going to File Explorer and deleting the contents of that directory ("Disk" "Storage disk location", i.e. the most thorough way to clear the cache), had no effect on resolving that.




I'm running Microsoft Edge most of the time, sometimes Firefox.
Firefox had reported the slowness was waiting for GunOwnersOfCanada.ca to respond, not some 3rd party image or website. CPU usage was negligible, so it wasn't a runaway script.
Ping gunownersofcanada.ca has always been under 10ms.
Traceroute was 10ms or less per hop.
Speedtest 45Mbps down, 11Mbps up.
ISP Cogeco.

[Magi]

Okay, an update on my particular issue: https://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/sho...l=1#post651137

RangeBob was correct "flushing the DNS cache" had no effect on either Chrome or Opera.

Drache's suggestion to "cleared my browser cache and my cookies" also had no effect.

However, "Run 'N' Gun" and "Smc's" suggestion that it "Maybe it's linked to ISP providers?" may very well be correct because I have the problem at the office (Cogeco, cable) but not at home (Bell, fibe), both Chrome or Opera work fast and correctly at home.

It appears by boss is interfering with my leisure time

[JustBen]

Speed is relative. It seems like only yesterday i was bumbling along in cyberspace with a blazing fast 36k modem...

I have no issues these days. Running shaw 150mbps at home and Chrome.

For the record, there are some compatibility issues between certain versions of chrome and skype that can cause a several hogging of resources and things to appear slow. Keep your softwares up to date.