Problems with site? - Page 13

#121: Post by HB » April 16th, 2021, 1:43 pm

jpender wrote:My experience is that it is better in the sense that it isn't getting stuck. But it's slower than it used to be. I can see it unfolding a few lines at a time whereas other websites just pop onto the screen instantaneously. It has a 28k modem feel.

The consistency may improve throughout the day. I ran the curl test 20x directly on the server:

Time Total: 0.449 
Time Total: 0.395 
Time Total: 0.378 
Time Total: 0.310 
Time Total: 0.320 
Time Total: 0.325 
Time Total: 0.295 
Time Total: 0.402 
Time Total: 0.373 
Time Total: 0.331 
Time Total: 0.337 
Time Total: 0.298 
Time Total: 0.319 
Time Total: 0.311 
Time Total: 0.336 
Time Total: 0.340 
Time Total: 0.333 
Time Total: 0.351 
Time Total: 0.336 
Time Total: 0.318

And here's the same test run from my laptop over the public network:

Time Total: 6.233837 
Time Total: 1.909841 
Time Total: 9.867858 
Time Total: 0.445195 
Time Total: 1.664795 
Time Total: 3.334518 
Time Total: 7.084069 
Time Total: 6.623081 
Time Total: 3.040478 
Time Total: 0.468526 
Time Total: 0.679785 
Time Total: 1.791784 
Time Total: 5.339140 
Time Total: 0.703051 
Time Total: 0.737286 
Time Total: 0.509464 
Time Total: 0.717836 
Time Total: 0.444451 
Time Total: 0.851264 
Time Total: 2.541436

There's a few big outliers in the above set (9.8, 7.0, 6.6, 5.3). The data center with the outliers wasn't always the same, suggesting [again] that it's an unpredictable delay in the network hops between "here" and the HB server. While that's sometimes annoying, it's much better than the last two days. I'll go with the programmer's suggestion I mentioned earlier.

#122: Post by **JohnB.** » April 16th, 2021, 2:00 pm

The site has been lightning fast all day for me. Much faster then I can remember it being in the past few years.

April 17th, 2021, 9:36 am

All still seems well for me.

#124: Post by HB » April 17th, 2021, 9:50 am

JohnB. wrote:Much faster then I can remember it being in the past few years.

At least for me, this site has always been fast

, but in trying to diagnose this problem, I eliminated some script loading until later in the page, so in theory that could explain the performance boost you noticed.

April 17th, 2021, 12:29 pm

I've seen regular slowdowns for ages. Nothing like the last few days but still pretty irritating. Hopefully the site will stay "fast" on my end.

#126: Post by **PIXIllate** » April 17th, 2021, 12:33 pm

It remains much faster than before.

#127: Post by HB » April 17th, 2021, 12:42 pm

JohnB. wrote:I've seen regular slowdowns for ages.

Hmm-m, that's news to me. I've tracked performance for a long time; you can check yourself anytime with Google Page Speed Insights. If you click "Show Origin Summary", it show the overall stats for all pages. For example, I just captured this one for the desktop:

The mobile only scores a 90; that's still good! From a user's viewpoint, the LCP is probably the most noticeable -- that's when the page is visualized enough that the user knows it's responding.

#128: Post by **JohnB.** » April 17th, 2021, 1:36 pm

4 of those last 28 days it's showing the site passing the Core Web Vitals the site was almost unusable.

#129: Post by HB » April 17th, 2021, 2:40 pm

Sheesh, rough crowd! Not like it was my fault either.

April 17th, 2021, 2:43 pm

And I wasn't blaming you, just pointing out that the Speed Insights test doesn't show the issues we had.