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Is it just me? Since the new layout, the site is painfully slow. It takes a long time to load any page and sometimes it gets stuck loading a page. I am confident that it is not my internet connection or my computer b/c I have no problem with other sites. Maybe b/c the site is still being upgraded?
It's not just you. It's been slow off and on since the upgrade. We're told they're working on it.. some of the slowness, I'm guessing, may have something to do with the re-indexing of the site for searches which should be done soon too.
Also, I posted this over 10 minutes ago. The thread appears in "Doctor's Lounge" but still not in "New Posts". Bug?
"Re-Indexing". OK. That makes sense. Maybe that's why my posts are not showing up in the "New Posts" search.
We're told that the indexing is very CPU intensive and it slows everything down. Hopefully things should be back to normal soon :)
It's beyond painfully slow, good Lord everything takes forever. No Matter what I did before it used to be snap snap snap now I mostly sit and stare at the screen.
In addition to my dislike of the new layout in general, I also find the site slower than before. On the past I would have to disable my HOSTS file to get things up to a moderate speed. Now even with HOSTS off, things are slow. This is the only site I normally visit with this problem.
If you're still using IE - it's time to switch browsers;)
I was a die hard IE user for ever up until about four months ago. I'm currently using FF portable that don't require any installation and notice a huge difference in page loading time... Now a days, I'm seeing that FF users are switching to Chrome.
Thanx for the idea--but--I have all the Browsers you mentioned and just compared them and there's no appreciable difference between them. The slowness is indeed the site, not the Browser.
It IS painfully slow.
Speed seems fine this morning...and it was fine yesterday morning for me too.
It could be an ad that is failing to load properly.
I have ads blocked so it's not an issue here.
Navigation and especially posting longer replies takes time (compare to other sites).
It took 8 seconds to post my previous reply.
I've found it slow at times over the last few days as well. Yesterday was ok for me but Sunday was very slow.
And there is still the problem with a new post taking a long time, I mean hours, before it appears in "New Posts".
There is probably a script that runs to update things like that and the script probably runs once an hour or longer.
So a script runs to update things like that. It used to update right away, now it can take an hour or more as an "improvement". Gee, isn't that special.
I only use Chrome and Chromium; it took less than 2 seconds to get to this page, less than 3 seconds to log in and return to this page. I'll edit how long this post takes.
This post took about 1 second to appear. I must not be coming around when the site is slow. Seems decently fast to me.
Maybe I am dreaming but the VDr site does seem faster today.
Is anything actually being done about the slowness?
It's simply a pain.
Navigating, posting takes for ever.
It took me 35 seconds to get to this page.
I just ran some tests here: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
I compared three similar forums to see how fast the main page loads.
1. My forum (the main page is 480kB in size): http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com
Average load time (3 tests): 2.2 sec
2. http://windowsbbs.com/ (333kB)
Average load time (3 tests): 2.2 sec
3. This site (391kB)
Average load time (3 tests): 6.4 sec
That's for the main page only.
Going any deeper is a challenge.
There is definitely something wrong.
Too weak server for the newest software?
I sure hope so also, it is indeed a pain. According to SpywareDr (from another post) this may have something to do with it.
The new vBulletin software may not be through indexing our over 1.3 million messages yet.
It's been what?
Two weeks? More?
I remember BleepingComputer, which is a HUUUUGE site going through an upgrade and it took them maybe 3-4 days to reindex everything.
Broni - I'll report it. Problem is - the site loads fine for me.
VirtualDr does have more than 7 times the number of posts as SmartestComputing
discussions.virtualdr.com - 1,354,087
smartestcomputing.us.com - 189,275
FWIW, here are my results from http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ this morning:
- discussions.virtualdr.com
Tested from New York City, New York, USA on July 24 at 07:06:20
Page size 369.5kB
Load time 3.89s
Requests 101
Perf. grade 87/100
Your website is faster than 40% of all tested websites
- smartestcomputing.us.com
Tested from Dallas, Texas, USA on July 24 at 07:08:44
Page size 476.3kB
Load time 2.07s
Requests 99
Perf. grade 85/100
Your website is faster than 68% of all tested websites
- windowsbbs.com
Tested from Dallas, Texas, USA on July 24 at 07:09:46
Page size 366.1kB
Load time 3.13s
Requests 162
Perf. grade 75/100
Your website is faster than 50% of all tested websites
http://tools.pingdom.com/ping/?targe...o=1&id=4081717
http://tools.pingdom.com/ping/defaul...o=1&id=6294109
http://tools.pingdom.com/ping/defaul...o=1&id=6294108
Ping test and I got real close to matching SpywareDr's findings.
C:\Windows\SYSTEM32>tracert virtualdr.com
Tracing route to virtualdr.com [70.42.23.121]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 73.99.224.1
2 7 ms 9 ms 7 ms te-2-1-ur02.aberdeen.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.
85.241.209]
3 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms ae-24-0-ar03.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net [69.
139.164.169]
4 19 ms 20 ms 26 ms he-1-7-0-0-10-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net
[68.86.91.165]
5 14 ms 15 ms 16 ms pos-0-1-0-0-pe01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.85.38]
6 15 ms 15 ms 13 ms 208.172.91.5
7 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms cr1-te-0-5-1-0.sel.savvis.net [204.70.224.45]
8 95 ms 33 ms 33 ms cr1-pos0-3-2-3.sanfrancisco.savvis.net [204.70.1
93.66]
9 35 ms 33 ms 33 ms er1-7-0-0.SanJoseEquinix.savvis.net [204.70.200.
197]
10 35 ms 33 ms 39 ms 208.175.172.10
11 155 ms 51 ms 205 ms border1.te8-1-bbnet2.sfo002.pnap.net [63.251.63.
65]
12 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms quinstreet-1.border1.sfo002.pnap.net [63.251.48.
202]
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Looks close to what did happen in New Jersey until they put vdr on it own dedicated server.
And then there's the fact that the ADS are coming from a different server. If you have a bad/poor hop getting to the ad server - it could cause problems.
I haven't heard back from the guys and gals upstairs. Am sure they'll look in to this.
It shouldn't affect main page load time.Quote:
VirtualDr does have more than 7 times the number of posts as SmartestComputing
It took 1 minute and 5 seconds to post my last reply.
Time the post.
EDIT:Less than 2 seconds.
It's very intermittent.
One post will take 2 seconds and the very next one 30 seconds.
In any case...
I post in a span of couple of minutes on 3-4 different forums and there is no question this one is very slow.
And I hit way more sites than that and don't have the slowness problem. I can link to a sister site that is always way slower then VDR is...Quote:
Originally Posted by Broni
Broni - maybe its cause the servers are in CA and you're too close and you'll have to move to Texas:eek:
On my way :)
It's very sporadic on my end. One min. it would be kinda normal. Next min. it's slow as heck.
You had mentioned that it took 3-4 days to index your site.Quote:
Originally Posted by Broni
VirtualDr has more than 7 times more posts to index.
4 x 7 = 28 days.
?
I'm just saying ... maybe that has something to do with it?
I was referring to BleepingComputer site.
It has 2,736,196 posts.
Actually, to me, the more annoying things is that new posts are not showing up until hours later. May we fix that, please.
What would be the polite, courteous and much appreciated thing is for someone in charge of this upgrade to post a statement of just what is going on. They must know there are problems, speed being the main one.
Is Indexing the current problem?
If so when will that be over---"X" days?
If it isn't Indexing what is it?
Can and/or will it be fixed?
Is it going to stay the way it is?.
People complain less and are not as aggravated when they know what's going on and what to expect. If it's going to stay the way it is we can all start adapting to it.