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#277354 9-Oct-2020 19:51
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The PBTech website has felt a lot slower than usual the past few days. The home page isn't too bad, but as you get further in it's slower, and search can be slow.

 

I ran a couple of webpagetest.org test, 1) here 2)  here 3) here. They took absolutely ages to test.

 

1) Monitors page seemed to time out. The page loads I could see were 4-7 seconds but webpagetest seemed to give up after that.

 

2) The home page took 9.4 seconds first view, 6.7 seconds repeat view. That's really quite slow.

 

3) Monitors page retest from a different server showing page loads 7-22 seconds. Yes, 22 seconds.

 

I gave up before the tests all finished as they were super slow. Testing my own website came back with normal sorts of speeds so I think the problem is the PBTech website going super, super slow or timing out.

 

I know some people here work for PBTech. I think you need to work out what's up and try to get things running a bit faster. Page load should really be in the 1-3 second range ideally.


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  #2582112 9-Oct-2020 20:13
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Even the front page won't fully load for me.




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  #2582113 9-Oct-2020 20:17
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Front page is loading near-instantly for me (on Voyager) but the rest of the pages are slow.

 

Edit: Slow now (21:44).


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  #2582115 9-Oct-2020 20:26
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Yes it is, told them on their facebook and was ignored.




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  #2582116 9-Oct-2020 20:28
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RunningMan:

 

Even the front page won't fully load for me.

 

 

Just to prove me wrong, working again.


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  #2582121 9-Oct-2020 20:46
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Thought it was just me.... but yeah, been sluggish as hell.

 

 





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  #2582124 9-Oct-2020 20:52
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The webpagetest.org links are pretty good proof that it's somewhat borked. 22 seconds is crazy. They'll be losing sales because of the website problems.


 
 
 

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  #2582127 9-Oct-2020 21:05
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I noticed this... thought it was an issue on my side but other websites loading ok.


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  #2582133 9-Oct-2020 21:37
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All the bots trying to nab 3080 when they in stock?




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  #2582135 9-Oct-2020 21:42
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Interesting, speed was quite normal for all pages I tried just now.





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  #2582150 9-Oct-2020 23:03
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mentalinc: All the bots trying to nab 3080 when they in stock?

 

This is where PB needs to be using something like Cloudflare to block such things - will help during their sales. Crazy they have not done so yet. Their site goes down often!





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  #2582212 10-Oct-2020 11:06
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michaelmurfy:

 

mentalinc: All the bots trying to nab 3080 when they in stock?

 

This is where PB needs to be using something like Cloudflare to block such things - will help during their sales. Crazy they have not done so yet. Their site goes down often!

 

 

but if they added cloudflare it wouldn't be fair for eusers that are on providers that don't peer with cloudflare!

 

 

 

gosh murfy think of the people!

 

 

 

PB has been pretty sluggish for me lately too though.





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  #2582231 10-Oct-2020 11:17
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hio77:

 

but if they added cloudflare it wouldn't be fair for eusers that are on providers that don't peer with cloudflare!

 

*Provider. No plural 😊





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