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#33823 12-May-2009 18:16

I've noticed of late that the forums are taking an age to load the forum page - not the top level, but the actual forum threads themselves.

Tried a couple of threads, an on average take 35-45 seconds to fully load. There is an initial pause of up to 30 seconds as the google ads and feedburner links are loaded, and then the actual forum finally comes into view.

Tried from two locations ( home and work), and a couple of different browsers - Firefox and Opera.

Anyone else noticed this ?

Most other NZ sites load up pretty smartly - just GZ is tardy.

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#214445 12-May-2009 18:39

Hmmm. Not for me... And I am on a Telstra 3G connection from Australia.

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#214450 12-May-2009 19:16

It is working fine for me on Xtra.

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#214451 12-May-2009 19:18

No problems here on xtra

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#214456 12-May-2009 19:39

cable no issues except for some little disturbance telstra experienced earlier

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#214457 12-May-2009 19:43

i was going to suggest browser, but you said tried all the options. mine desktop running vista 64 and ie8 has a bug i think - gz doesnt even load sometimes, it just stalls and the entire ie8 goes into a hang! but firefox is fine. and it's only gz. a friend said to do with flash or java or something. who knows! just my 2c

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#214459 12-May-2009 19:54

Hmm,, must be an infectious dose of bad karma .... strange though - two different ISP's, different browsers, different times and different locations. Guess I'd better not touch anything else in case it spreads

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#214465 12-May-2009 20:28

Sometimes the ad servers, trackers (there are a lot of those) can really slow it down. Logging in (subscribed) makes the pages load in a matter of < 5s even on the current Dial-Up, otherwise it's in excess of 20s.

Also some ad-blockers can actually hinder performance so be wary.

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#217825 25-May-2009 20:48

It's very slow for me in Opera as well. The top post loads quickly but the replies can take a long time or not load at all. Works fine in Firefox though.

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#217911 26-May-2009 08:35

I have found since coming back after 2 weeks off that with Opera 10 and Sunbelt firewall GZ will no longer load. Something to do with the ads. If I turn off Sunbelt's ad blocker it's OK so I end up turning off the firewall when I want to access GZ. All other websites are fine..

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#217912 26-May-2009 08:39

It could be the Air New Zealand ad? It's being served from a third party and either your firewall software doesn't like ads, or your ISP has problem accessing the content.

I have no problems loading the forum pages. Actually in the last week or so we have reduced the page size by about 10%, reduced the script runtime by another much and we are always looking at things to make it faster...

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#218102 26-May-2009 18:58

Not sure what you did but tonite at home it works as it did two weeks ago. Many thanx.. :-)

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#218104 26-May-2009 18:59

Tweaking, tweaking...

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#218110 26-May-2009 19:14

runs quickly on firefox and running windows 7.

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#218167 26-May-2009 22:59

This page does 56 http requests, 26 javascript files alone..... of course some will be cacheable but still!

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#218198 27-May-2009 06:35

Ragnor: This page does 56 http requests, 26 javascript files alone..... of course some will be cacheable but still!

Hmmm. Let's put things in context - I see Ragnor running for the picthforks.

We do a lot of work here to reduce size, improve server performance and overall client speed. Geekzone is actually quite good, getting a score of 70 for the homepage, and 65 for this page.

We use a server side software called RPO to reduce page size, scripts, minify CSS, create CSS sprites (have you looked at the source), thus reducing the number of requests. If we didn't do it then you would have a lot more requests.

According to Analytics only 2% of our visitors use dialup. So I am quite happy with 56 http requests for a webpage to be loaded.

Do you want to see who are the worst offenders? Check this blog post where John Clegg list New Zealand sites by size, Yslow, download times. Or check this spreadsheet to see where Geekzone is in the list.

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