Speedguide speed

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:30 am

Man, my load times on SG have been pathetic as of late, pages half loading or not at all, slow slow slow.
SG's Speed test says I'm averaging around .8 Mbps
My ISP's speed test state 2.4 Mbps
Bandwidthplace says 2.2 Mbps
DSL reports pts me a 2.245 down 605 up

2005-03-02 01:30:54 EST: 2245 / 605
Your download speed : 2298959 bps, or 2245 kbps.
A 280.6 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 619550 bps, or 605 kbps.
test IP was to bmts.com via bellnexxia.net

Is anyone else having an Unspeedy Speedguide experience lately?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:30 am

Yes, and almost everytime I check what is taking so long to load a page, it's the ad. Can we not have faster ads? This IS a broadband site afterall... SG SpeedTest also gives me alot lower marks than other speed tests.

And don't even start with the Premium Membership thing...

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:37 am

Time to do a tracert and figure out where the problem starts.

Subsane · Post by **Subsane** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:47 am

That problem seems to come and go for me...nothing the refresh window doesn't usually fix though.

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:42 am

Subsane wrote:That problem seems to come and go for me...nothing the refresh window doesn't usually fix though.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:50 am

Its mainly netshelter ad junk casing the delay.

wee96 · Post by **wee96** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:14 am

I mentioned that to Philip awhie ago, its the netshelter ad as stated before. It had gotten better but I guess its rearing its ugly head again.

minir · Post by **minir** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:10 am

Hi Chris

Tragically Slow here this AM as well.

Takes forever on 56k

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regards

minir

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:13 pm

For anyone else who is having slowness and page loading probs here are you using EI 6 sp2 as your browser?

DL'd and am messing with Firefox right now, it does not seam to be having the loading page problems that I am experiencing in IE 6 sp2.
Could there be a coding issue?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:16 pm

Chris wrote:For anyone else who is having slowness and page loading probs here are you using EI 6 sp2 as your browser?

DL'd and am messing with Firefox right now, it does not seam to be having the loading page problems that I am experiencing in IE 6 sp2.
Could there be a coding issue?

It does it in ff too. thats what i use.

Post by **Philip** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:19 pm

It is not a coding issue, it is banner related, and yes, it is browser dependent.

I'm looking into modifying the code to allow for banners loading after the page, but it might take a while to test it all.

Firefox handles page loading differently, so it does not necessarily suffer from the same issues as IE.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:21 pm

Cool, thanks Philip

I hate FF so I hope you figure is out Mr Guru

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:22 pm

Yeah with FF. The pages would load up, but down in the info bar it would show ads.blahblahblah.com or whatever, before I reupped my premium. Slow ad servers probably.

Post by **Philip** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:53 pm

I've disabled 728x90 Netshelter ads for the time being, while I figure out a workaround. Tried IFRAMEs without much luck.

Thanks for the feedback guys, it's appreciated !

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:25 pm

Definatly feels better so far Philip

Thanks

Post by **Philip** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:42 pm

Implemented modified iframe tags back into pages.

Please let me know if you experience any other issues with page loading.

For future reference, it would help if you provide tracereoutes to the SG server, or the suspect ad domain with any slowdowns... For example, if you see slow netshelter ads it would help to post a trace to servedby.netshelter.net (67.19.38.165) ...

Thanks again for the constructive feedback, I hope this works better.

Philip

JawZ · Post by **JawZ** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:26 pm

Philip wrote:Implemented modified iframe tags back into pages.

Please let me know if you experience any other issues with page loading.

For future reference, it would help if you provide tracereoutes to the SG server, or the suspect ad domain with any slowdowns... For example, if you see slow netshelter ads it would help to post a trace to servedby.netshelter.net (67.19.38.165) ...

Thanks again for the constructive feedback, I hope this works better.

Philip

Well, since you've done this, now us Firefox users are being affected because it is very FLAKEY right now.

Even as a premium member....where ads are blocked, it's getting flakey in Firefox.

Now I am using Firefox v1.01 so that might make a difference.

Post by **Philip** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:42 am

UOD, can you define "flakey" ? What happens, what is the problem ?

I don't see any difference in Firefox 1.0 (I'll try upgrading later today). I've only changed one of the codes that appears at certain frequency (let's say 1 out of 4 pages)... And the ad code is not in the html at all for premium members.

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:38 am

FF 1.01 here - nonpremium account. I haven't seen anything weird.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:42 pm

Using FF 1.0 here, whatever u did helped alot phillip!

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:59 pm

page loads first, then the ads