I have a well maintained gaming-configured PC, and a fast connection.
So, why does each page on this site take so long to load?
I don’t have this slow problem with other sites.
> I have a well maintained gaming-configured PC, and a fast connection.
> So, why does each page on this site take so long to load?
> I don’t have this slow problem with other sites.
Bet yeah it’s because there are:
150 pages in the Matchmaking forum board
1143 pages in the Halo 4 forum board
630 pages in the Halo Reach forum board
I’ve noticed some forums tend to slow down when they have too many threads in total in them, slows the server down.
Sometimes it appears unusually slow, however most of the time it’s decent when it comes to quickly loading pages (I’m running Chrome 19 on OS 10.4.7). Granted, loading time for pages could be a bit quicker, but its never been slow enough to cause annoyance. For me, anyways!
> Sometimes it appears unusually slow, however most of the time it’s decent when it comes to quickly loading pages (I’m running Chrome 19 on OS 10.4.7). Granted, loading time for pages could be a bit quicker, but its never been slow enough to cause annoyance. For me, anyways!
When I come back from Bungie.net forums and other forums, I always find these forums ridiculously slow a lot of the time. My connection is 125MB download speed and my laptop is new and fast running Windows 7. It goes somewhat fast sometimes but a lot of the time it can take up to thirty seconds to go into a thread! Hopefully in time they fix the forums on this website.
The rest of the website seems to be fast…
I’ve never had a problem. Every page loads in about 5 seconds max.
The only problem I have ever had in terms of loading speed is when I hit submit on a post and it can take 30 seconds to a minute to actually submit the post, any page I try to open on Waypoint in another tab is also slowed down to this pace until the first page has finished loading.
Other than that, I get as said by CortanaNirvana, 5 seconds max loading times, heck, maybe even 2-3.
> The only problem I have ever had in terms of loading speed is when I hit submit on a post and it can take 30 seconds to a minute to actually submit the post, any page I try to open on Waypoint in another tab is also slowed down to this pace <mark>until the first page has finished loading.</mark>
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> Other than that, I get as said by CortanaNirvana, 5 seconds max loading times, heck, maybe even 2-3.
I’ve noticed this as well. Do you have an explanation for it?
I find the Roll Call forum to be absolutely dreadful…
> I find the Roll Call forum to be absolutely dreadful…
I find the Halo 4 forum to be the fastest and the rest then take a very long time to load when I have one the best connections available in my country. They really need to improve the speed of these forums. If it’s temporary, I’m fine with that but if it stays like this, it’s a bit more of a problem.
It completely reeks of poor server configuration, that or the hardware is lacking.
Protip@WebCrew: lighttpd is your friend, fo real.
Sometimes it changes to the mobile layout and then back… that costs time. It can’t handle my screen size i guess. But its only a minor prob.
> > The only problem I have ever had in terms of loading speed is when I hit submit on a post and it can take 30 seconds to a minute to actually submit the post, any page I try to open on Waypoint in another tab is also slowed down to this pace <mark>until the first page has finished loading.</mark>
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> > Other than that, I get as said by CortanaNirvana, 5 seconds max loading times, heck, maybe even 2-3.
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> I’ve noticed this as well. Do you have an explanation for it?
I remember somebody saying that it is something Waypoint built in to stop a user from using up to much bandwidth if one page is going slow, it will wait for said page to load before allowing new pages to open.
What causes the really long load times after hitting submit, is beyond me.
Took 10 seconds for the reply page to come up. And about 85 seconds for the reply to post. Pathetic.
> The only problem I have ever had in terms of loading speed is when I hit submit on a post and it can take 30 seconds to a minute to actually submit the post, any page I try to open on Waypoint in another tab is also slowed down to this pace until the first page has finished loading.
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> Other than that, I get as said by CortanaNirvana, 5 seconds max loading times, heck, maybe even 2-3.
This is the case for me…submitting a post takes sooooo looong!
It doesn’t help that I seem forced to use HTTPS in IE8 - if I bounce back to HTTP it’s faster for me, but then a random page will push me back to HTTPS, so no caching and a processing overhead. All pages have to be freshly created.
And the fact that the emblems aren’t HTTPS mean I get a poxy security prompt on every page.
> > > The only problem I have ever had in terms of loading speed is when I hit submit on a post and it can take 30 seconds to a minute to actually submit the post, any page I try to open on Waypoint in another tab is also slowed down to this pace <mark>until the first page has finished loading.</mark>
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> > > Other than that, I get as said by CortanaNirvana, 5 seconds max loading times, heck, maybe even 2-3.
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> > I’ve noticed this as well. Do you have an explanation for it?
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> I remember somebody saying that it is something Waypoint built in to stop a user from using up to much bandwidth if one page is going slow, it will wait for said page to load before allowing new pages to open.
That’s my hypothesis, yes. The number of requests are limited and excess ones are queued.
This also happens on the browser level. I see it most frequently on Waypoint, BNet, and Xbox.com, however, so I think that it’s a built-in feature of ASP.NET (the framework on which those three sites was built).
> What causes the really long load times after hitting submit, is beyond me.
I’ve had situations where a page stalled when I submitted a reply… but the list of posts below the reply form still autoupdated, and showed the post I submitted! I think that the page submits a post, and then waits for confirmation from the server before continuing, and that second step occasionally lags way behind (or freezes entirely) for some reason.
Halo waypoint forums have been slow since the beginning if I remember correctly. There are only moments of speed… But they’re not long.