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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......

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Esel

Read my post above (time-stamp 02/05/2020 16:07).

JTMan

Esel wrote: »

I'm a subscriber using uBlock Origin (which I installed a number of years ago when experiencing slow load times, and it made a huge improvement).

I have downloaded uBlock Origin Chrome add-on. I am not noticing any big change in slow load times.

Did you do anything in addition to downloading the add-on?

corks finest

ShaneU wrote: »

Long load times on chrome mobile, about ten seconds.

It's been awful for months on and off only on the touch site, similar problems last year for ages- great forum but needs maintained - whether it's a voluntary yearly contribution or what I don't know but something needs to be done

JDxtra

Sounds to me like, for whatever reason, the key technical staff required are not available to troubleshoot the issue.

Post counts must be way down. Casual users don't have patience when sites that don't work and certainly won't go changing browsers or going into incognito mode.

Hopefully it is resolved soon, as it's barely usable at the moment.

Sad Professor

Very slow in Safari but loading fine for me in Chrome. Touch site on my iPhone is fine too.

YFlyer

Awfully slow on my Samsung phone using Chrome.

aido79

Mine was painfully slow for the last week or so. Yesterday I cleared cookies and browsing data and straight away saw a massive improvement in load times for pages. Maybe give it a go and see if it helps.
Using Samsung phone and chrome by the way.

GinSoaked

aido79 wrote: »

Mine was painfully slow for the last week or so. Yesterday I cleared cookies and browsing data and straight away saw a massive improvement in load times for pages. Maybe give it a go and see if it helps.
Using Samsung phone and chrome by the way.

Have it working well after changing browser to one I'n never used for boards.ie before except can't get any attachments to load. Externally linked pics work but not internally embedded ones.

Vestiapx

Chrome Incognito seems to make a huge difference.

edit : for browsing, posting still painful.

Esel

JTMan wrote: »

I have downloaded uBlock Origin Chrome add-on. I am not noticing any big change in slow load times.

Did you do anything in addition to downloading the add-on?

No, nothing else. Not saying that's a fix for the current issue, but thought it was worth posting about.

JTMan

Perhaps Boards.ie staff could give a quick update on how things are going with resolving this issue?

Gerry Wicklow

Welcome to the '90s
Guys is this a hardware failure, a DDOS attack or malicious software?
Any update would be appreciated.

YFlyer

aido79 wrote: »

Mine was painfully slow for the last week or so. Yesterday I cleared cookies and browsing data and straight away saw a massive improvement in load times for pages. Maybe give it a go and see if it helps.
Using Samsung phone and chrome by the way.

I did a clear out. Can't say there is any improvement.

GinSoaked

YFlyer wrote: »

I did a clear out. Can't say there is any improvement.

Try a different browser one you haven't used before.

Sad Professor

Sad Professor wrote: »

Very slow in Safari but loading fine for me in Chrome. Touch site on my iPhone is fine too.

Since this I manually deleted Boards from Safari's website data and history, restarted my Mac and now the site is loading fine. We'll see for how long...

J. Marston

Fine on my Samsung phone with Chrome.

Awful on my laptop using Chrome.

Fine on my laptop using incognito on Chrome.

What a weird website.

[Deleted User]

This is it wrote: »

It's not a DDoS or we'd be contending with Cloudfare every 30 seconds. Database issue maybe? Probably no point in guessing

I was just going to post that and then read your, post.
Not a DDos. Cloud flare would have kicked in.

Seems to only be an issue on mobiles.

GinSoaked

SouthWesterly wrote: »

I was just going to post that and then read your, post.
Not a DDos. Cloud flare would have kicked in.

Seems to only be an issue on mobiles.

Nah two desktops and a laptop here all have problems with some browsers all work with some but not the same browsers. None can see pictures linked as attachments.

daheff

No major problems loading pages but what I am seeing is

Clicking linked images just doesn't work
Some forums are coming up with pages from 15/16/17 years ago (bargain alerts for one)

Using chrome on Android.

[Deleted User]

It’s more horrendous on the full site than touch.

[Deleted User]

this has improved things in Chrome desktop for me

1. Delete specific cookies
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies.
See all cookies and site data.
search for the website's name. -> boards.ie
To the right of the site, click Remove .

2.Allow cookies
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies.
in allow -> add boards.ie

3. Restart Chrome

end of the road

just did a second clear out of cookies etc and the sight is now loading at a reasonable speed for me, for now at least. posting is still slow though.
using firefox.
some email notifications for subscribed threads are coming through now again as well.

celtic_oz

its horrendous the site is practically unusable

GinSoaked

celtic_oz wrote: »

its horrendous the site is practically unusable

Bank Holiday weekend - don't expect much change.

[Deleted User]

glasso wrote: »

this has improved things in Chrome desktop for me

1. Delete specific cookies
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies.
See all cookies and site data.
search for the website's name. -> boards.ie
To the right of the site, click Remove .

2.Allow cookies
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies.
in allow -> add boards.ie

3. Restart Chrome

if you use Chrome on laptop would recommend you give this a try.

mobile seems a lost cause at the moment

Cutie 3.14

glasso wrote: »

if you use Chrome on laptop would recommend you give this a try.

mobile seems a lost cause at the moment

I did this just now on my phone. (Samsung using Chrome) and it worked perfectly, thanks!

It was taking a good 60 seconds for anything to load the last few days for me

JTMan

glasso wrote: »

this has improved things in Chrome desktop for me

1. Delete specific cookies
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies.
See all cookies and site data.
search for the website's name. -> boards.ie
To the right of the site, click Remove .

2.Allow cookies
On your computer, open Chrome.
At the top right, click More. Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Cookies.
in allow -> add boards.ie

3. Restart Chrome

That worked. THANK YOU.

iamwhoiam

I cleared history and cookies on my i phone and its working again . Phew !! I nearly gave up on boards

JDxtra

No value in a few having access to boards because they've cleared cookies or some other tweak. There'll be nobody to chat to!

This needs to be fixed for all by a fix (or multiple fixes) by the boards technical team.

Esel

Also, any new users (since the slowdown) are not going to stick around.