Transpulse pages slow to load

[DeeDee]

I do not know if anyone else is having this issue but I have noticed that my page response times seem to be getting longer and longer so I thought I would ask,

is this happening to anyone else?

For example I moved from a private message screen to the main forum screen to write this and it took 32 seconds for the page to load.

Once I have accessed a page for a session it speeds up to the usual few seconds but this has been consistently happening to me for a while now.

I use Google Chrome as my main browser, I have a decent PC and broadband speed, other sites I access load in seconds, and even in my chromebook it takes a while.

[Niamh]

Hi @DeeDee

 

Yes - I'm getting the same sort of response times, but that's nothing new for me. Maybe a bit slower in the last couple of days but not significantly slower than the normal level of slow!

 

[Petra Jane]

I’ll raise it with piper later on, when I’m on my pc rather than my tablet. Of course, it could down to the size of the database...

[Carolyn Marie]

I agree, Dee Dee.  This site has long been very slow to load pages. Other sites I visit don't have this issue.  Thanks for looking into it, @Petra Jane.

 

Carolyn Marie

[VickySGV]

OK, I have not been imagining things were slower!!! 

[LaurenA]

3 hours ago, Petra Jane said:

 Of course, it could down to the size of the database...

That was my first guess.  Maybe a judicious trimming might be in order.

[Jackie C.]

It comes and goes with me. Sometimes it's quick, other times not so much. I'm using Chrome. Number of windows open doesn't seem to be a factor. Sometimes It's quick when I have a dozen TGP windows up, sometimes not. I was chalking it up to internet demons.

 

Hugs!

[DeeDee]

This may sound terrible, but I'm so glad it's not just me! ?

[Petra Jane]

Funnily enough, the site has just loaded the fastest it has for a while...

[Charlize]

Maybe it is intimidated by you Petra.  Mine also loads slower than some other sites but it isn't disturbing.  

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Ivy]

It loads pretty slow for me as well.  I have gotten pop-ups that warn that the page is using a lot of energy.  I've not seen that on other sites.

But I don't want to complain, this place is a lifesaver for me.

[Bri2020]

It has always loaded at a crawl for me. Hasn't felt consistently slower the last few days. I always assumed it was because it was probably being hosted on a budget friendly hosting plan since it's not a money driven forum.  If it's a shared hosting plan bandwidth can come and go depending on demands by other sites.  I may be totally wrong though.  Never bothered me too much since it's run by donations and the service it provides us is so special I don't mind waiting 5-20 seconds for a page to load.  

[Petra Jane]

Actually we are on a dedicated server so I have asked Piper to take a look.

[Bri2020]

1 hour ago, Petra Jane said:

Actually we are on a dedicated server so I have asked Piper to take a look.

In that case- yea Piper gots work to do. haha.

But in all seriousness, thank you for this place!

[DeeDee]

I remember dial up waiting times, so don't want to complain because of a few extra seconds and seem ungrateful lol, I remember starting to download something and coming back the next day to check on it and hope the connection hadnt dropped! I'll take 30 seconds over that any day! ?

[tracy_j]

I presumed a lot of my slowness was due to Windows 10 as it is going slower and slower on my laptop. I find some other sites are a bit iffy at times too, although this is the slowest.

 

Tracy

[Petra Jane]

Just to make you aware, I've set some background processes going that are supposed to make things run a little smoother/quicker, ONCE these processes are complete.

 

These include changing the caching that allow Guests to see the forums from refreshed every 30 seconds, to 30 minutes, also extending the time that caching takes place. These processes are currently at 11% complete, and have been running for 10 minutes or so, so please allow at least an hour for this to complete.

 

Plus Piper is going to take a look at the server asap.

[Ivy]

Seems to be much better now.

Thanx

[Carolyn Marie]

4 hours ago, Petra Jane said:

These include changing the caching...

 

 

Just as long as you're not caching a cold, PJ.  So far, so good!  Thanks!

 

Carolyn

[Petra Jane]

4 hours ago, Carolyn Marie said:

 

Just as long as you're not caching a cold, PJ.  So far, so good!  Thanks!

 

Carolyn

Groan!

[Ivy]

Sometimes it's just too hard to resist.

[tracy_j]

Things appear somewhat quicker now.

 

Thank you!

 

Tracy

[Bri2020]

I'm still experiencing about 6-10 second load times. Seems longer when clicking on notifications links.  Pretty confident in my connection speeds and computer processing since it's a new mac and I have high speed broadband.  

[Petra Jane]

Piper has checked and she get's complete page loads in about 3 seconds.

 

Admittedly, that is a lot better than I do, from my area of the UK pages take about 6-8 seconds

 

I've run a test to load the forum home page and that loads in 4.17seconds based on a US ping.

The same test running from a UK ping/location reports just 2.09seconds to load the page.

 

 

[Jackie C.]

It's been really responsive for me this morning. I just did a quick test and I'm getting 16ms pings so any problems I'm having isn't the internet itself.

 

Hugs!