Why is EN World so slow?

[AeroDm]

Any updates on the speed issues? We're about 5+ weeks past the upgrade and I still get modest lags on any page change. I checked Alexa and it has enworld around the 40th percentile for speed whereas giantitp is around 75th percentile (and I believe handles a larger volume of posts). I get that enworld has a lot of features, but I think the core feature is the ability to participate in threads and that is what the lag hurts the most.

 

[RedTonic]

I very often have problems with ENworld failing to load at all. I also have pretty good broadband at home, as well as a T3 connection when I'm up in Boston.

On the up side, it keeps me from posting silly (of the unfunny sort) things, so it's not all bad for me. Still, I would like to be able to open up the SH forum without reloading four or five times every other attempt.

 

[Jdvn1]

I very often have problems with ENworld failing to load at all. I also have pretty good broadband at home, as well as a T3 connection when I'm up in Boston.

On the up side, it keeps me from posting silly (of the unfunny sort) things, so it's not all bad for me. Still, I would like to be able to open up the SH forum without reloading four or five times every other attempt.

No silly for you!

 

[pawsplay]

I have issues with ads. Often, I can fix the issue just by hitting refresh and getting a new ad.

 

[Alan Shutko]

I'm thinking it might be CPU or DB related.

I did some surfing with Charles installed (a web proxy that can log sessions for debugging). Almost all images, etc came back with very little latency. On the other hand, text/html responses came back with a 3.5-14 second delay. Since images were fast, and the content seemed to be fast once data started streaming back, it makes sense that it's in the forum software.

Attached is a CSV file (with a .txt extension so I could upload it) with the quick session. If this kind of information is useful, I could log it during a longer session.

 

[ahayford]

I'm lagging horribly right now. Up to 2 minutes per view/post.