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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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JDxtra

Site traffic must be way down. The most thanked posts have around 30 thanks. Normally that's a lot higher, 100+ easily.

ka2

I’m having the opposite issue. Incredibly slow on my laptop on the full site but fine on my phone with touch.

PopTarts

Lollipop95 wrote: »

Incredibly slow on my iPhone using the Safari browser. Glad it’s not just me experiencing this. Very frustrating, please fix this

It’s strange! On my iPhone 11, it’s so slow but on my old iPhone 6S it’s perfect.

Same browsers (Safari) / Same WiFi

Tork

There isn't any logic to why it's working fine on some browsers and not on others. We've two Windows 10 laptops here. It's flying on Edge on one and crawling on the other, for example.

What's more worrying is that there doesn't seem to be anybody trying to fix this. Does boards not have any personnel who have the skillsets to sort this out. Maybe they might consider a shout out to boards users who might be able to help?

Graham

Please let the hamsters know they should mark notifications in the notification queue as complete once they've been sent.

I keep getting the same notifications multiple times.

Skid X

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

Great tip, thanks

Someone should put a link to this in a site announcement

Xertz

For me it’s been working fine to browse this morning and early afternoon but when I post there’s a big delay. It’s occasionally taking up to 3 minutes on my iPhone for a post to actually complete.

Also occasionally getting the “database error” page.

Is this another DDoS ?

GBX

First day it's been working ok for me. Deleted cookies every day as posted already but only working from today.

HeidiHeidi

Skid X wrote: »

Great tip, thanks

Someone should put a link to this in a site announcement

I tried all that and it didn't work.

Seems to be entirely random what OS/browser/device works or doesn't.

My phone on incognito worked yesterday, gone to hell today.

A tablet, same browser, same wifi, no cookies or cache clearing done, is working perfectly.

There's no rhyme nor reason to it.

trellheim

On average 15.5 seconds for each page on PC today. Irrelevant of page, browser, cookies ; Chrome, IE, Edge , incognito mode

either its timing something out and flicking to an active cache or db server or its a dead ad-tracker but that would be seen in frontend tools

Once the main php loads the rest is instant so my spidey sense says a dead cache server or something like

Hector Savage

Very slow for me today ... are they trying to download a snapshot of my PC to track me or what ?

Sad Professor

It's been fine for me on all devices since I cleared website data/history and restarted. Pages load instantly.

Weird problem. Hopefully it will be fixed for everyone else during the week.

corks finest

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's been fine for me on all devices since I cleared website data/history and restarted. Pages load instantly.

Weird problem. Hopefully it will be fixed for everyone else during the week.

It's like this for months so boards are obviously not really interested in the touch site,I reported same several times last year, answer o got was reinstall boards I did , but it always went back to crap again pretty soon I'd gladly donate a yearly sum to keep it serviced,do it's f all to do with our current dilemma

Xertz

Flying along for me now posting on iOS safari latest editions.

All totally random from what I can see.

Wonder if logging out of your account and reconnecting may help?

corks finest

trellheim wrote: »

On average 15.5 seconds for each page on PC today. Irrelevant of page, browser, cookies ; Chrome, IE, Edge , incognito mode

either its timing something out and flicking to an active cache or db server or its a dead ad-tracker but that would be seen in frontend tools

Once the main php loads the rest is instant so my spidey sense says a dead cache server or something like

More like 25/ 30 seconds on my phone shame really I live boards

JP Liz V1

I've logged out cleared cache history etc., and I think it is even slower, any further update from the team on fixing?

Yggr of Asgard

Boards Staff: It's the Nodes....

glasso: It's your cookies...

@glasso, well cookies it seems to be as on multiple devices deleting them made everything super fast.

Boards, I think you have some explaining to do here!

HeidiHeidi

Yggr of Asgard wrote: »

Boards Staff: It's the Nodes....

glasso: It's your cookies...

@glasso, well cookies it seems to be as on multiple devices deleting them made everything super fast.

Boards, I think you have some explaining to do here!

It might have for you, but it didn't for others.....

Yggr of Asgard

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

It might have for you, but it didn't for others.....

That might be, but here is where it shows that there is a need for explanation.

Same System:
Chrome - cookies cleared - wonderfull performance
Firefox - cookies not cleared - crawling

So clear cookied on Firefox and voila wonderfull performance.

Same on a different system and different ISP
Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer (chromium) all fine once the cookies are are cleared but with older cookies bad.

So maybe there is more to it why it does not work for some, but clearly if you destroy the cookies it works fine.

HeidiHeidi

Yggr of Asgard wrote: »

That might be, but here is where it shows that there is a need for explanation.

Same System:
Chrome - cookies cleared - wonderfull performance
Firefox - cookies not cleared - crawling

So clear cookied on Firefox and voila wonderfull performance.

Same on a different system and different ISP
Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer (chromium) all fine once the cookies are are cleared but with older cookies bad.

So maybe there is more to it why it does not work for some, but clearly if you destroy the cookies it works fine.

I've just tried clearing cookies (again) on firefox, and now I can't log in at all.

Yggr of Asgard

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I've just tried clearing cookies (again) on firefox, and now I can't log in at all.

Sorry to hear that.

I had a cloudflare screen a few minutes ago but now it's back for me.

Try again and also give https://touch.boards.ie/ a try. Noticed on my iOS that safari goes to that that site and works fine without any cookie clearing but IE goes to the desktop site which only works since clearing my cookies.

Gen.Zhukov

Did anyone that is still having trouble try running CCleaner as mentioned in my previous post?

Sad Professor

Just clearing cookies doesn't always work. With Safari on the Mac I cleared cookies/website data multiple times with no improvement. (During this time Chrome for Mac and the touch site on iOS were working perfectly.) It wasn't until I deleted Boards from Safari's website data and history and restarted that the site started loading properly again.

Gen.Zhukov

The reasons I mentioned that cleaner are-
1. it worked for me
2. for years I would delete browsing history and after that run cleaner. Cleaner always finds and removes between 16 and 30mbs that deleting history seems to miss (presumably the cookies)

Esel

Gen.Zhukov wrote: »

The reasons I mentioned that cleaner are-
1. it worked for me
2. for years I would delete browsing history and after that run cleaner. Cleaner always finds and removes between 16 and 30mbs that deleting history seems to miss (presumably the cookies)

I don't think any set of cookies would be that big though?

Gen.Zhukov

Esel wrote: »

I don't think any set of cookies would be that big though?

I've actually no idea what it's finding/removing, I just know I'm flying around the site now after days of my head being wrecked.

corks finest

Gen.Zhukov wrote: »

I've actually no idea what it's finding/removing, I just know I'm flying around the site now after days of my head being wrecked.

Check
boards.ie screenshot
Boards.ieWebsite Name:
www.boards.ieURL Checked:
no responseResponse Time:
~5 days 4 hoursDown For:
DOWN
Boards.ie is DOWN for everyone.
It is not just you. The server is not responding...

Harry Palmr

Esel wrote: »

I don't think any set of cookies would be that big though?

Could be local storage files of typically 2 or 3 mb.

trellheim

the site remains slow in incognito mode in Chrome. By definition, this means cookies cannot be the issue unless Incognito hasn't been doing what we all thought it does for the last few years.

Must be a server side issue.

JTMan

Going incognito did not work for me either.

However, following all the cookie steps as spelt out here worked for me.

The issue is cookie related.