Website speed

[Peter WolffParticipant @peterwolff50493]

Hi,

Until recently was able to get onto the MEW website almost instantly when clicking on the link. I generally use my iPad for this and look at the digital issues in the magazine viewer.

It now takes almost 2 minutes just to load the website! Am I the only one experiencing this issue? I get it either when on my home wi-fi or if on the 4G network (all signal bars).

Peter

[Peter WolffParticipant @peterwolff50493]

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Can you tell us what "link" you are clicking.

No problems for me though ME has always been a bit slower than other sites from day 1 maybe 2-3 seconds

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Peter Wolff on 09/09/2013 11:00:03:

Hi,

Until recently was able to get onto the MEW website almost instantly when clicking on the link. I generally use my iPad for this and look at the digital issues in the magazine viewer.

It now takes almost 2 minutes just to load the website! Am I the only one experiencing this issue? I get it either when on my home wi-fi or if on the 4G network (all signal bars).

Peter

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Peter,

It all appears to be working fine on my iPad [v1 wi-fi]

MichaelG.

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

I get the same effect if I am logged into the site and I leave it open without using it for a while. It then is extremely slow in coming back again. If I close the tab open a new one and go back to the site it comes back straight away with the login form at the top right.

I think the problem is that if you don't send any traffic for a while it logs you out but Firefox, or whatever, doesn't realise that and doesn't display the login form.

Russell.

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

The site usually loads quickly for me (using IE) but for the past few weeks I have been unable to log in and therefore make any posts or view the archive.Today it was working again. I still have not been able to establish if this was a problem with my internet provider or it was a block put on by one of the people running this website. Suggestions would be welcome.

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Anthony,

If it happens again you could try deleting all cookies associated with model-engineer.co.uk. However it will forget your login name and password so make sure you know them.

Russell.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

If you disable javascript things speed up considerably

A major holdup is crummy advertiser connections trying to get onto the viewing page

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

The entire net has been a mess recently.
Ebay has been a PITA to surf

I reckon it’s all these new streaming services and video things creating “traffic jams” of data

Edited By Ady1 on 10/09/2013 10:52:22

[Peter WolffParticipant @peterwolff50493]

Thanks everyone for their comments and suggestions. I go through a google search to get to the site every time. Bookmarking has not really made any difference.

I have tried disabling JavaScript and things do go quicker, but the result seems to be that I am unable to view the digital magazine. I am all in favour of advertising (especially stuff that interests me!) but the site does seem crammed full to the brim with it.

The latest is that I disable JavaScript and then navigate to the site. Once the site loads I enable JavaScript again and refresh the page. I have cleared cookies multiple times but that does not seem to make a difference to the speed.

Now, I forgot to mention that I am in Australia, although this should in theory not make such a big difference!

[Peter WolffParticipant @peterwolff50493]

Thanks everyone for their comments and suggestions. I go through a google search to get to the site every time. Bookmarking has not really made any difference.

I have tried disabling JavaScript and things do go quicker, but the result seems to be that I am unable to view the digital magazine. I am all in favour of advertising (especially stuff that interests me!) but the site does seem crammed full to the brim with it.

The latest is that I disable JavaScript and then navigate to the site. Once the site loads I enable JavaScript again and refresh the page. I have cleared cookies multiple times but that does not seem to make a difference to the speed.

Now, I forgot to mention that I am in Australia, although this should in theory not make such a big difference!

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I also cleared my website history a few days ago and reset the store pages setting from 30 days to 1 day which has made a big difference

…we never used to have these trubbles…

[Thor 🇳🇴Participant @thor]

Whether I clear website history or not does not seem to affect the speed of loading this website very much. But I am accessing this website from across the North Sea, and most (all?) UK websites are slow to access, so for me it is internet traffic that determines how fast I can access this website.

Thor

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Peter,

iPad 3 using Terra browser to browse this and other similar sites.

I have the same problem occasionally and all I do is power down then back up again and problem solved.

Do also check that you have enough free storage, as recently, I was inadvertently trying to run 12 apps in the background with only 1GB free.

Deleted a load of audiobooks I'd listened to and freed up 8GB.

Don't also forget, that site designers/owners are adding more and more cr*p to bling their pages for no other reason than the now all too prevalent 'Me too, me too' mentality.

Geoff – Need to make more biltong then SHMBO's afternoon out, with me in tow.

[Peter WolffParticipant @peterwolff50493]

Hi OuBallie,

Thanks for that. I did try the power off just now but still the same story… I have about 60Gb free space so that won't be an issue.

Went and looked at the Americans' site Home Machinist and it flies. I will explore their offer and weigh it up against my MEW subscription… Not much point staring at the blue bar slowly crawl painfully to the right. But then, hey, only a few years ago it took five minutes to retrieve emails with a modem. What do we customers know anyway.

Back into the real workshop now, have a mess to sort out.

Good luck with the Biltong!

Cheers,

Peter

[Gone AwayParticipant @goneaway]

Posted by Peter Wolff on 15/09/2013 11:02:27:

Went and looked at the Americans' site Home Machinist and it flies. I will explore their offer and weigh it up against my MEW subscription…

You should be aware that the Home Shop Machinist digital edition does not allow any printing.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

It looks like the UK system is unable to cope with the volume of traffic

Yesterday was great for me, I zipped about and did stuff on a whole bunch of sites which are usually no better than a good 56k dialup connection nowadays

…but yesterday was a bank holiday

Today everyone is back to normal at work etc and things are back to UK PLCs standard 56k dialup mode

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