jim is it me or is it it--when i open page etc it takes a while to pop up?? aapl??
You mean on this site? I've been averaging 2-4 seconds delay before a page loads (although of course this varies depending on traffic, server load, ect...) My feeling is that the new system (switched yesterday) is maybe a second faster than the old. Or maybe not, but it feels faster because the white background appears sooner than before. So yeah, there is a delay (compare to dratfink which comes up almost immediately because it is just a static html page.) I could have made the whole thing static like that, but I think that the ability to see your comments posted in real time is worth the few seconds delay.
On the other hand, there could be some problems. You are using Netscape on the Mac (I think) and sometimes I find that Netscape sort of weirds out and starts behaving very funny. Some pages won't load at all. Others stall for a long time. If you quit Netscape and start it up again (while staying dialed in) I've found this solves the problem. Doesn't happen often, but enough to be problematic. If things seem unusually slow try that.
And also, just for the technical record, I've recently put my Netscape cache file onto a ram disk, and this definitely speeds up reloading pages you have already seen (like when you hit the 'back' button.) This will have no effect overall, but for jumping Back and Forward it speeds things up. If you want to try this, go to the apple menu (top left of your screen) and from there into the control panels menu (it pops out from the apple menu when you are over it) and then select 'memory' from the control panels. In the Memory window click RAM Disk 'On' and move the slider over to, say, 10240k (10 megs.) Then just close the window. Restart your computer. Open Netscape. Open the Preferences (found at the bottom of the edit menu) and scroll down on the left to select 'cache' from the menu (under 'Advanced'.) After you select 'cache' you can click on 'choose' on the right hand side and a typical file search window will pop up. Go to the desktop (in the pull down menu top center) and all the files and folders on your desktop will be listed. RAM disk will be one of these. Click once on it to highlight it, and then click 'Select Ram disk' at the bottom. The file window will disappear, and then just click OK in the Preference window and your cache will be on the ram disk. (Note: when you shut down your computer it will prompt you with a warning that the contents of your Ram disk will be lost. This is O.K., just hit O.K.)
Back to the site speed issue. My thought was to design the functionality in, and let the processing power catch up. The site does a lot of tracking (compared to other message board sites.) This takes a lot of time (a second here, a second there) but soon it won't take so much time. Hopefully the server will upgrade to php4 soon, and then we should see a big performance jump. Don't know when that will happen, but I would think in the next 6 months. We'll see how that goes. O.K. Thanks to you and everyone for dealing with not the fastest site.
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- Skinny 5-31-2000 1:38 pm
You mean on this site? I've been averaging 2-4 seconds delay before a page loads (although of course this varies depending on traffic, server load, ect...) My feeling is that the new system (switched yesterday) is maybe a second faster than the old. Or maybe not, but it feels faster because the white background appears sooner than before. So yeah, there is a delay (compare to dratfink which comes up almost immediately because it is just a static html page.) I could have made the whole thing static like that, but I think that the ability to see your comments posted in real time is worth the few seconds delay.
On the other hand, there could be some problems. You are using Netscape on the Mac (I think) and sometimes I find that Netscape sort of weirds out and starts behaving very funny. Some pages won't load at all. Others stall for a long time. If you quit Netscape and start it up again (while staying dialed in) I've found this solves the problem. Doesn't happen often, but enough to be problematic. If things seem unusually slow try that.
And also, just for the technical record, I've recently put my Netscape cache file onto a ram disk, and this definitely speeds up reloading pages you have already seen (like when you hit the 'back' button.) This will have no effect overall, but for jumping Back and Forward it speeds things up. If you want to try this, go to the apple menu (top left of your screen) and from there into the control panels menu (it pops out from the apple menu when you are over it) and then select 'memory' from the control panels. In the Memory window click RAM Disk 'On' and move the slider over to, say, 10240k (10 megs.) Then just close the window. Restart your computer. Open Netscape. Open the Preferences (found at the bottom of the edit menu) and scroll down on the left to select 'cache' from the menu (under 'Advanced'.) After you select 'cache' you can click on 'choose' on the right hand side and a typical file search window will pop up. Go to the desktop (in the pull down menu top center) and all the files and folders on your desktop will be listed. RAM disk will be one of these. Click once on it to highlight it, and then click 'Select Ram disk' at the bottom. The file window will disappear, and then just click OK in the Preference window and your cache will be on the ram disk. (Note: when you shut down your computer it will prompt you with a warning that the contents of your Ram disk will be lost. This is O.K., just hit O.K.)
Back to the site speed issue. My thought was to design the functionality in, and let the processing power catch up. The site does a lot of tracking (compared to other message board sites.) This takes a lot of time (a second here, a second there) but soon it won't take so much time. Hopefully the server will upgrade to php4 soon, and then we should see a big performance jump. Don't know when that will happen, but I would think in the next 6 months. We'll see how that goes. O.K. Thanks to you and everyone for dealing with not the fastest site.
- jim 5-31-2000 5:02 pm [add a comment]
FYI it took almost 60 secounds for me to Gruop Blog from Home and 20 to go from Home to Jim
- Skinny 6-01-2000 9:58 pm [add a comment]
I am very interested in this. Is anyone else experiencing this slow of a rate. My comments above about the 2 to 4 second wait were in terms of the initial delay before anything happens. Definitely the whole pages are not fully loading in 2-4 seconds. Depending on how big the pages are (for instance, Arboretum is very big, so takes longer to load) I'd guess another 2 to 8 seconds. So total load times (from when you press enter until the page is fully loaded) somewhere between 4 and 12 seconds. Obviously the speed changes at different times (depending on traffic, ect... I'm assuming we're all on 56k dialups.) Probably I've waited 20 seconds for a full load (especially if pictures are involved) but 60 seems way too much. Anyone else? (Mike, I want to come look at your machine again.)
- jim 6-01-2000 10:22 pm [add a comment]
i am sure its me or my machine--jim linda will have to look over your ideas etc
- Skinny 6-02-2000 5:58 am [add a comment]
now its high 20's of seconds 27ish home to group--did it 3 times
- Skinny 6-02-2000 6:03 am [add a comment]