Over the last couple of days, the site has been very slow to load.
Has anyone else had this problem?
(All other sites are OK)
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Firefox or IE6 ??
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Firefox or IE6 ??
Both - different PCs.
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Ditto. I unblocked adcookie-setting sites in case it was self inflicted but it made no difference. Must be unusable on a dial up just now.
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No probs, whizzes on Firefox, bit sluggish on the BT/Yahoo thing.
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Sluggish on the BT/Yahoo thing, Firefox swift as ever.
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I'm on 1mB cable (IE) and at the moment it is slower than my old dial-up!
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Just clicked H J Discussion icon on top toolbar of Firefox and it loaded the text page of headings in 3.3 seconds from click using 500k broadband.
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Slow to unuseable on AOL/IE6 - OK on firefox>
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Pretty much instant (<1 sec per page) on Firefox on a Mac. Has been for ages, but I do have the free Adblock plugin that learns the advert domain names and ignores them. The site was unusable due to badly written floating java adverts.
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2 seconds to load front page from cold, 2 for back room.
IE6 fully patched, 512 tiscali BB
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No probs on IE6 and 512k
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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Fell asleep waiting for web page to load 1MB broadband IE6
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Yes i have AOL GOLD which is 1mb broadband it loads like the old dial-up!
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Its not what you drive, its how you drive it! :-)
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Assume the mods are monitoring this and will find feedback short of complaints as useful.
Using IE6 on an ancient PII 450 over 512k ADSL. Its a lot slower when I turn ad blocker off but quite acceptable even on the bigger threads. Still a lot faster than National Rail's site.
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I think a lot of the slowness is frequently down to the 3rd party sites, eg ad.uk.doubleclick.net, which can often take ages to respond.
If it were not for the chain of sites that must be completed st every move, it would probably be as fast as any other.
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no problems, loads as fast as ever with BT 2mb and XP. not seen ad.ukdoubleclick or any other erronious spyware. I presume i have IE6.
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All hunky dory here - 1meg cable and IE6
Dan
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IE6, 1meg BB. No problems here.
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Mozilla Messenger on 512kbps. Just pinged the site got lowest 13.8ms highest 17.1ms.
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was unusable for a few days but seems to be back to normal now using BT1meg and IE6...cheers...keo
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IE6 and 1Mb broadband. No issues.
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Firefox and 512k broadband, slow for a while but ok again now.
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This site I found was unloadable on dialup. Could only access from work unless I had 5 mins spare to load each page.
Now have 1 Meg broadband and everything is fine.
Like a lot of websites these days there's just too much to try and load at once but I'm not complaining. Just makes broadband even more justifiable!
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Site is right up to speed this morning (monday) on IE6
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Loading fine for me. I am running a P3 600 with 512mb RAM on a 512k broadband connection using Firefox. If anyone had a slow down I would expect it to be me in rural West Australia.
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Just about unusable!
Firefox + 512 Broadband
All other sites are ok
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pmh (was peter)
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Fine, on all PC's I've used. Could be faster but not slow enough to moan about.
That damn Flash advert is another matter...;o)
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I confirm that site is extremely slow to load on IE.
I gave up earlier on as nothing happened after several minutes when I tried to launch a forum.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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Not a browser thing, I'm afraid - it's sluggish on Mac OS 10.3 running Safari !
It's your adverts, HJ - they're referencing external html links, and those links are slow.
If you want a more complete answer, I'll put the web-programmer I work with onto having a look at it ... I run a web-design company .....
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But all ok now.
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pmh (was peter)
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Thanks guys.
We've taken your comments and passed them to the techies. They'll have a look into this for us.
I'll let you know of any developments.
Thanks again,
Mark.
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currently at home - ie6, xp, 1/2 meg broadband
no issues recently, certainly none before going out this morning.
come back in, it is now taking 20 seconds+ to load a page. HJ's is the only site to be affected - all others as normal
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21 seconds to post the above post, 34 seconds to open the box for this message
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ad.uk.tangozebra.com would appear to be the culprit at the moment.
It is entirely specific to this site, nothing to do with browsers being affected by adware from other sources.
The adverts are just taking ages to load, that's all it is.
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If it's any help I've just been fiddling around with the adblock extension on Firefox and the site works much quicker when the "tangozebra" links are blocked.
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Hi - Tangozebra big problem for me. Taking up to 90 secs to load on Firefox.
Regards DougB.
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Block the lot in Firefox and it's much better, tangozebra, doubleclick, bluewotsit, etc.
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Maybe this is just down the number of 'site hits' at a particular time. The site hosting organisation should be able to give an account of this information. It seems to be possible problems at the server end rather than the client.
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The trouble with blocking the ads is that HJ needs the money from them to maintain the site.
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There's ads and there's ads.
I don't mind those at the side, but the constant pop ups drive me mad.
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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Well, it has taken me 20 minutes to get into the site....earlier today almost instant response (10Mbit WAN) now it constantly gets hung on external references to ad agencies:
ad.uk.tangozebra.com
s0b.bluestreak.com
m3.doubleclick.com
ehg.autotrader.hitbox.com
etc etc
I can put up with the adverts, but the pages dont load until after the ads so I have been faced with a blank page while waiting.
This is the same on 3 different machines, definitely not browser hijacking.
This behavious started around 3pm and has only just resolved at around 3.20pm.
The same computers that were locking up on this site and this site only are now loading and responding correctly so not a problem at my end.
StarGazer
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IE6 XP SP2
No problems until now. VERY Slow this pm. Took 3 mins to load..
(No change to my setting, 0.5MB broadband)
madf
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Ok guys, we've really got the message. I promise you.
Leave it with us and we'll get back as soon as we can.
Thank you.
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Not for me waiting 15-20 seconds for screens to refresh. Making it unusable. Works WAN connection with reasonably quick Pentium Laptop. Not this end because other sites are fine.
Jim
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Welcome to the Victor Sylvestor's School of Dancing.....
....a slow, slow, quick,quick, slow.......
DVD
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Well, it has taken me 20 minutes to get into the site....earlier today almost instant response (10Mbit WAN) now it constantly gets hung on external references to ad agencies: ad.uk.tangozebra.com s0b.bluestreak.com m3.doubleclick.com ehg.autotrader.hitbox.com
I've put these into my "block list" in IE6 but when it shows the domain names it doesn't register anything in front of the word before .com ~ for example ad.uk.tangozebra.com is listed as tangozebra.com
Does this have any relevance?
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I don't mind those at the side, but the constant pop ups drive me mad.
I haven't had a single popup since I installed McAfee Privacy Service. Amongst other things it also incorporates a handy file shredder.
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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Running acceptably here in deepest rural France with P400, IE6, dial-up (no broadband yet!) and AOL9. Transformed since Norton blocked the pop-ups...
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OK at the moment but sometimes takes minutes to get to 'page cannot be displayed'.(IE 6,3mg b/band)
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Thasnks guys. We have got feedback coming outj of our ears. Could we leave it there until we get back to you ?
Thanks.
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Sorry for the slow response Doug, but if you install Mozilla Firefox and use it instead of Internet Explorer, you'll find in the Tools menu a link called "extensions". When you click on that it will open a little box that shows you which extensions you have installed--none for now. At the bottom right of the little box is a link "Get More Extensions" and if you click on it it will take you to a page from where you can download a small add-on called "Adblock." Use the search bar on the page to find it. Once that's installed you'll find for every ad on the page a small tab has been added, just click the tab to block the ad.
To block everything from a particular ad server, look in the bottom right hand corner of your browser window and click on the word "Adblock," which will open up a window that shows you all the web addresses you have blocked. For example, the tangozebra server is ad.uk.tangozebra.com and will have a load of subdirectries after it. Delete the subdirectories and put *.* in their place, so it looks something like: ad.uk.anyadserver.com/*.*
If you right click on an ad you can copy its url by selecting "Copy Link Location" from the menu. That can then be pasted direct into the list. Of course once the problem is fixed, you can remove the link from the list of blocked sites. One thing to note, some ads, like the Nissan popup, change their address periodically. Once you've clicked the new ad to get money for the site, just block it again using the tab.
Sorry if you already know this, but I thought it might be helpful.
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