Speed of the site

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Fri 17 Mar 2006 10:45
Speed of the site - Neiltoo
Am I alone in experiencing slowing speeds on accessing the HJ site? It's been getting worse for me over the last few days.
Am I alone?
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 10:56
Speed on the site - Carse
I am having similar issues, it seems extremely slow today!
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 10:59
Speed on the site - tr7v8
Unusable it's taken 10 minutes to log in & post this, I'll give up & go elsewhere!
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:03
Speed on the site - helicopter
It has taken me nearly five minutes to go from reading this thread to login to writing this - so yes, very slow.
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:18
Speed on the site - kingfisher
No problems here.
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:19
Speed on the site - Baskerville
No you're not alone.

But having looked into this just now if you install the Firefox adblock extension, then add *.intellitxt.*, *.doubleclick.*, and *.tangozebra.* to the preferences, the site speeds right back up again. So it's the amount of stuff you have to download from the advertising sites that is damaging the revenue-raising capabilities of this site. Ironic, innit?
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:25
Speed on the site - Wally Zebon
I thought it was my PC, as our database at work is also slow today!

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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:29
Speed on the site - SteVee
Baskerville - many thanks, that worked for me.
Tools->Adblock->Preferences
then add each of the three filters separately into the New Filer: box and press Enter.
Problem resolved.
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:25
Speed on the site - artful dodger {P}
No problems at all. I use Norton and have no problems at all.


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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:31
Speed on the site - Adam {P}
I can't use the Firefox extension- I use Opera :-(
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 12:05
Speed on the site - Nsar
I timed it as 30 seconds from clicking "reply to this message" to seeing the log-in page. Starting typing and was prevented by the on-line survey floaty pop-up.
I can't access it fom home as I'm often on GPRS mobile connection and it's simply too slow unless I happen to get lucky with a bit of 3G. Dial-up would be a total non-starter.

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Fri 17 Mar 2006 12:32
Speed on the site - Dynamic Dave

Regarding the speed of the site.

It is something we are aware of and the matter is being looked into.

DD.

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