Slow site performance

HeidiHeidi

Is there something up with the site today?


Pages are glacially slow to load, haven't experienced it with other websites, just boards.


I've tried rebooting, still the same.


Not the end of the world, but v frustrating!


Hope this is the right place to ask......

Headshot

Yes it's been awful

Boards in general has been dreadful for some time now but today has been particularly bad

Boards.ie: Mark

Hi HeidiHeidi,

Yes, there are some nodes under strain and that seems to be causing some slowdown across the site. Sorry for the disruption.

The_Conductor

Unusual load times for pages (30-40 seconds) and some complete time outs.
Pinging looks normal though.

Tokyo

The_Conductor wrote: »

Unusual load times for pages (30-40 seconds) and some complete time outs.
Pinging looks normal though.

I had the same issue for most of the day on Safari. Tried it on Firefox just now and am getting normal load times. Still trying to figure out why.

ShaneU

Long load times on chrome mobile, about ten seconds.

HeidiHeidi

mike_ie wrote: »

I had the same issue for most of the day on Safari. Tried it on Firefox just now and am getting normal load times. Still trying to figure out why.

I'm on Firefox, and it's about 10 or 15 seconds to load each page.


ETA - I just timed it and it's more like 30-40 seconds

un5byh7sqpd2x0

The slowness looks to be on just the touch site here, the desktop version is OK.

Doodah7

Reaaallyyy slow load times on Safari on Mac today...

Arghus

Using the touch site on Android, very long load times.

HeidiHeidi

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I'm on Firefox, and it's about 10 or 15 seconds to load each page.


ETA - I just timed it and it's more like 30-40 seconds

yes its appalling today. I've logged out and back in, I've shut my laptop down and rebooted it, I've turned off WiFi and back on, I've tried it on my iPad instead of laptop, but the result is the same no matter what I do.
Extremely frustrating. No other sites are like this, just off Amazon UK and all good there.

The_Conductor

Justin Sparse Rugby wrote: »

The slowness looks to be on just the touch site here, the desktop version is OK.

Nope- IE, Chrome, Firefox and Edge on a W10 desktop- all crawling here.
Also tried it over a VPN and over a Citrix connection, featuring Catalina and Mint- crawling on those too.

The Crazy Cat Lady

attachments are showing up as blank as well

DelBoy Trotter

aspiewriter wrote: »

attachments are showing up as blank as well

That's the main issue I've faced today. Loads times for pages seem fine, but attachments take forever to load and inevitably end up as a black screen

Boards.ie: Mark

Hi all,

Sorry for the ongoing issues. Unfortunately restarting your system, changing browsers, clearing cache, etc. won't help with this situation as the issue is server side.

JP Liz V1

Yes very slow today chrome on the mobile

Hotblack Desiato

Even pressing the thanks button takes ages!

Headshot

Is there actually anything been done about this?

Hermite

I wonder who the problem is

Pick one of the following,
loss of VM
Loss of a few CPUs
Database overloaded
etc

thesandeman

No problems here at all. Using Chrome on Touch site. Strange.

Fixed?
It's flying now...

suicide_circus

I pay nothing to use this site and I expect this to be fixed post haste

HeidiHeidi

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Fixed?
It's flying now...

Not for me, on touch site on Android. Haven't tried the laptop since earlier.

Headshot

Deleted User wrote: »

Fixed?
It's flying now...

Nope dreadfully dreadfully slow

ShaneU

Back to normal for now on chrome desktop

sioda

m.boards is completely borked touch seems to be fine

looksee

I'm on a laptop on Chrome and it is very slow, takes about 10 to 15 seconds to go from one page to another. I thought it was my internet - which is pretty poor at the best of times - but other sites, and skype, are fine.

Edit - oh and posting (and editing) takes ages, and the post sometimes does not 'take' till the page has been refreshed.

Tork

Not here it isn't It's as slow as castor oil on both phone and computer.

Summer2020

Pretty much unusable at the minute for me. Pages taking 30+ seconds to load all day.

un5byh7sqpd2x0

The_Conductor wrote: »

Nope- IE, Chrome, Firefox and Edge on a W10 desktop- all crawling here.
Also tried it over a VPN and over a Citrix connection, featuring Catalina and Mint- crawling on those too.

Your experiences are different than mine so. Tried various devices including via VPN etc. The only place it’s slow is on the touch site- regular joe site is humming along

johnmcdnl

It was horrendously slow for me until I just wiped all site data from my Chrome browser and signed in fresh. Flying along perfectly fine now for me.

Itssoeasy

It’s awfully slow for me on my iPad. My phone is slightly better but that’s not saying much. Every other site is very fast so it’s not on my end and from looking at others it’s not just me thankfully. I hope this post actually posts.

HeidiHeidi

Mine was like a lame snail all day, but I'm on Chrome on a tablet now and it's fine. Thank Gawd!

Witcher

Slow as fook atm

muffler

johnmcdnl wrote: »

It was horrendously slow for me until I just wiped all site data from my Chrome browser and signed in fresh. Flying along perfectly fine now for me.

yup, done the same and its flying now

Tork

I tried clearing everything in a few browsers on phone and tablet. No luck. It’s still moving at the speed of an arthritic snail on both full and touch

Charlie19

johnmcdnl wrote: »

It was horrendously slow for me until I just wiped all site data from my Chrome browser and signed in fresh. Flying along perfectly fine now for me.

Yup this worked for me too.

Last night was dreadfully slow and same again this morning then I deleted all the history and cache and it's back to normal now.

Summer2020

Is there any update on when this might be sorted out? Has taken 3-4 minutes to get to the stage of posting this message.

CH3OH

I dont know if it is related to the amount of users on site but last night was very bad. Practically unusable on mobile. It seemed to improve a bit when I cleared history.
But the desktop site on laptop seemed ok

Mobile seems ok this morning but the old post issue is annoying

Sephiroth_dude

Still painfully slow here

_Kaiser_

Same. Tried clearing cache/history as above but no change on Desktop. Touch site on mobile seems OK though.

GinSoaked

It would be good if someone could update the thread title or post #1. I managed to navigate here after what seemed like and age and thought "Oh Great" Post #1 will have an update about whats wrong with the site - no it didn't more time wasted. At least after some more waiting around I eventually discovered it wasn't just me.

Tigerandahalf

Painfully slow on touch site on android mobile but tried my android tablet and it is perfect.
I cleared cache and history on phone but no luck. Error 524 timeout.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Fixed?
It's flying now...

Well, it was when I posted that, back to slo-mo mode now, probably lost a few squirrels.

GinSoaked

GinSoaked wrote: »

It would be good if someone could update the thread title or post #1. I managed to navigate here after what seemed like and age and thought "Oh Great" Post #1 will have an update about whats wrong with the site - no it didn't more time wasted. At least after some more waiting around I eventually discovered it wasn't just me.

Yeah, What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1(2017))

Boards.ie: Mark

GinSoaked wrote: »

It would be good if someone could update the thread title or post #1. I managed to navigate here after what seemed like and age and thought "Oh Great" Post #1 will have an update about whats wrong with the site - no it didn't more time wasted. At least after some more waiting around I eventually discovered it wasn't just me.

I've separated out the new posts from the old thread so that people don't have to work through old posts. Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, we don't have an update to share. At the moment, all I can do is apologise for the ongoing disruption. I know it's frustrating, but thank you all for any patience that you can muster up as we work through these issues.

Tork

At this stage, I'd be happier if they just took the site offline and did whatever they need to do to sort this, rather than schedule it. Stick something on social media so people can find out what's going on. Boards is unusable at the moment.

GinSoaked

Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

I've separated out the new posts from the old thread so that people don't have to work through old posts. Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, we don't have an update to share. At the moment, all I can do is apologise for the ongoing disruption. I know it's frustrating, but thank you all for any patience that you can muster up as we work through these issues.

Thanks, I think a lot of people would be happy to find out as quickly as possible that its not just them. Thats the only reason I came to Feedback. I really didn't want to be clearing cache etc and having to remember and retype URL's that Google Chrome normally fills in for me from cache if I didn't need to.

Penfailed

It's still crawling here. It takes so long to put up a post that people are trying again resulting in double posts all over the shop.

Has been unusable since yesterday, touch site on phone.

Another poster, duvet day, suggested using incognito tab.
Working fine for me.