Complaints about the forum being slow

[RangeBob]

And it's slow again.

[Doug_M]

My best guess is that it is related to the server move to the LightSpeed platform. Not proven technology in that it does not have market saturation and usage history even close to IIS let alone Apache or NGINX.

[kennymo]

I’ve been occasionally unable to view new pictures or YouTube videos posted by some users at random since the most recent round of issues started. Others can see them judging from the responses. This morning, whole strings of photos/videos disappeared. Seems to be linked to certain users, for example all FALover’s videos in the Great Cover Thread have vanished for me. I can still see posts from other users.
Tried logging out/back in, clearing browser, wifi and mobile data, makes no difference.

[FALover]

I’ve been occasionally unable to view new pictures or YouTube videos posted by some users at random since the most recent round of issues started. Others can see them judging from the responses. This morning, whole strings of photos/videos disappeared. Seems to be linked to certain users, for example all FALover’s videos in the Great Cover Thread have vanished for me. I can still see posts from other users.
Tried logging out/back in, clearing browser, wifi and mobile data, makes no difference.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LB303]

I’ve been occasionally unable to view new pictures or YouTube videos posted by some users at random since the most recent round of issues started. Others can see them judging from the responses. This morning, whole strings of photos/videos disappeared. Seems to be linked to certain users, for example all FALover’s videos in the Great Cover Thread have vanished for me. I can still see posts from other users.
Tried logging out/back in, clearing browser, wifi and mobile data, makes no difference.

Even with the persisting problems we are having in Ontario, FALover's Great Cover posts are still visible to me. Wait, we're both in Ontario, would that be a factor?

[jwirecom109]

My best guess is that it is related to the server move to the LightSpeed platform. Not proven technology in that it does not have market saturation and usage history even close to IIS let alone Apache or NGINX.

The forum has been on the same type of server for 2 years now, the recent move was to an upgraded server with the same tech.
So this is not the issue

[RangeBob]

If it were a server issue, I have a checklist of questions to diagnose that.

But it's not a server issue, because that's a single point of failure and lots of people aren't experiencing a slow down.

[RangeBob]

BTW, the first page
http://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/
https://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/
is always fast.

[LB303]

If it were a server issue, I have a checklist of questions to diagnose that.

But it's not a server issue, because that's a single point of failure and lots of people aren't experiencing a slow down.

Isn't it curious that the Whats New search is consistently affected, while other searches aren't.
While at the same time, I have no problems on the cell, just with the home service
Where is our content being throttled. If that's the word for it. Slowness I could just blame on traffic. Formatting points closer to the source.

[shortandlong]

Isn't it curious that the Whats New search is consistently affected, while other searches aren't.
While at the same time, I have no problems on the cell, just with the home service
Where is our content being throttled. If that's the word for it. Slowness I could just blame on traffic. Formatting points closer to the source.

I noticed this too

Multiple home computers no joy

[Doug_M]

What’s New has never acted up for me.


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[wrencher]

Firefox, Chrome and Explorer on PC are all slow with "whats new" not formatted. On Ipad the same and a google phone the same.

[mlehto]

Same here...

Formatting is all messed up and slow as hell.

Reply With Quote seems to be broken as well...

[Booletsnotreactwell]

Okay I brought this up in another thread, doesn't seem like anybody here mentioned it so far but there's a bunch of stuff running in the background that's unnecessary and wasn't here before. Depending on the page of the forum there's other domains that show up. I'm running Firefox with it's security settings turned to max and it throws alerts about that stuff depending on what page I am on.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4896/...5dc957e8_b.jpg

If you don't know what all this is, basically the internet of today isn't like that of 2003; you connect to sites now and you actually have 5, 10 sometimes 15+ random sites connected in the background raping your computer. The typical trackers, Facebook/Google widgets and such that let Facebook track everywhere you go on the net even if you don't log into your accounts, ad serving domains, content delivery networks, "code libraries", etc. The site seems to be browser finger printing people now. I'd recommend turning all the extra crap off. Don't see why the website wouldn't run with just the scripts from the first party domain.

[Booletsnotreactwell]

Doing Several Load tests, it seems that the results are the browsers, users are using for the most part are the issue with load time.
See results below:

These are test sites that use multiple access points from around the world, to record the high, low and average access time, I'm posting the Highest of North America.


Test site 1: Load time - 2.142s Chrome - No errors

Test site 1: Load time - 5.805s - Firefix - Several Errors

Test site 1: Load time - 2.960s - Opera - No Errors

Test site 2: Load Time - 2.1 sec (Chrome) No errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 5.8 sec (IE browners) Several errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 5.4 sec (Firefox) Several errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 1.7 sec (Opera) No errors
Test site 2: Load Time - 2.1 sec (Android operating browser) No errors

Results are saying that if your using Firefox or EI, there are errors that are stopping from loading the site quickly.
These are not errors with the site, but compatibility of the browsers to the site.

You have have had good access before, as browsers change settings in their software this can affect some of the sites you use.

GOC has always recommended using Chrome for using our site. Users are welcome to use whatever they want though.

In case you didn't know the whole "works best on Chrome" idea Google pushes gets a lot of hate in the circles of people who are technology inclined/care about the way the internet is supposed to work.

If any site ever required Chrome/only worked on Chrome I would stop visiting it, actually it's happened before and I stopped going. Same thing with sites that are inoperable unless you let them browser finger print you. The site should work on any major browser that follows modern Web Standards/W3C, pushing "just switch to Chrome" is a half baked solution.

Also does this site use real HTTPS? As in end to end, client to server HTTPS. Reason I ask is that some websites use a hack of a solution, their site is served up by some CDN e.g. cloudfare through HTTPS but then from the CDN to the real server it's all HTTP plain text.