Temporary front page

[Morrus]

Please let me know whether this affects your lag problems. Trying to identify the bottleneck.

[Charwoman Gene]

Blows my lag bproblem out of the water!

[Hrothgar Rannúlfr]

Seems much better.

I was having trouble even reading through threads, before. Way too slow.

I was beginning to question whether it was a problem with my computer, but it works fine on the other sites I visit.

Glad you're looking into it.

[Mark]

No lag or hang ups now.

[mxyzplk]

Totally faster. Page loads in 62 ms off of 12s+ earlier. Not to nag, but remember the post I made about front end performance issues and fixes with the new ENWorld? They all still apply and it may be time to look at them.

Most of the problem is the 28 separate JavaScript files, totalling more than 500k. Browsers won't download other elements when a script is downloading. If you:

1. Eliminate unneeded JS
2. Combine the remaining JS into one file and move it to the bottom of the HTML, not the top
3. Minify the JS (google it)
4. Turn on mod_deflate in your Apache 2.0
5. Turn on expiration headers so that at the bare minimum browsers will cache that 500k of grunge

You'll probably improve your site performance by a huge percentage.

[two]

This is infinitely faster. Get rid of that old front page, like, NOW!

[garyh]

Much faster!

[JoshR]

Very fast!

[Filcher]

Much faster from front page to forum. Still getting dropped on posting replies though.

"Safari could not open the page “http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/#8221; because the server is not responding."

Although in fairness, it used to be suicidal even to try to see ENworld in the evening. Early morning or not at all were the 2 options.

[Mark]

Did you just try something six minutes ago that might have lagged it down again?

[Archmage]

Noticeably faster now. Previously, switching pages would be 10-20 seconds, often timing out. Haven't seen any of that with the temporary front page.

[rgard]

Much faster. We're cooking on gas now.

[Knightfall]

It does seem faster but it still freezes once in a while. I lost an entire post about half-an-hour ago.

I'm using IE7, BTW.

[Elodan]

Was much faster but I got a time out message for two or three minutes about five minutes ago. I did get the timeout message much faster than previously.

Now it's speedy.

[Mouseferatu]

Eh. Still having a lot of problems. I'll get a few minutes of good speed, then a while of "it takes several minutes to load a page," then a while of good speed, and so on.

And I frequently lose posts. (This is not my first time trying to respond to this page, for instance.)

Running Firefox 2.something, for what it's worth.

[DaveMage]

Originally Posted by Mouseferatu

Eh. Still having a lot of problems. I'll get a few minutes of good speed, then a while of "it takes several minutes to load a page," then a while of good speed, and so on.

Same here.

[weem]

Been playing around for about 5 minutes to test (heading places I have not been, moving around a lot, etc) and it is much much faster (running at what should be normal speeds now).

[Charwoman Gene]

LAg spike at 11:00pm est

[Intrope]

I'm still seeing transient slowdowns--but they're better (it actually loaded the pages during the slowdown, just took ~60 seconds). In the fast bits it's doing fine.

Also, with the full front page (before this test) I had noticed that the front page was always much slower than a forum to load (I open front page, general and rules in a tab set--the front page was always last to finish, often by a lot).

Edit: I saw the same lag spike as Charwoman Green, only it took me longer to write my reply.

More: Once the page had loaded after the lag spike, I've been able to post quick replies and do edits all but instantly.

[Charwoman Gene]

Originally Posted by Intrope

More: Once the page had loaded after the lag spike, I've been able to post quick replies and do edits all but instantly.

same for me