Site performance

[Peter Mugridge]

Before I flag this up to the mods, has anyone else found this site has slowed down dramatically in the past week or so?

Specifically, if viewing via Google Chrome, are you seeing a lot of "waiting for..." messages in the lower left corner of the screen? If so, I'm wondering if you're seeing the same ones as I am? ( I'll list them later - I'm in the middle of cooking the Sunday roast at the moment... )

 

[DaleCooper]

I use Firefox and this is one site where I never seem to have that problem, I do get it with many others.

 

[SS4]

I've not really had a problem on firefox although I did notice the forum was slow this afternoon but that was my connection

 

[Mojo]

I've not had any problems. Think the internet is being fairly quick this afternoon.

 

[507021]

I'm using Chrome and I've not had any issues with the site

 

[trainophile]

No problems on Safari.

 

[DaleCooper]

No problems on Safari.

I'm surprised you can get a signal out in the bush.

 

[trainophile]

I'm surprised you can get a signal out in the bush.

I was waiting for that!

 

[Crossover]

No problems here either - not experienced any problems for quite some time now (since the days where the database was falling over, but that was sorted many moons ago!)

 

[Harlan Cage]

No problems with Safari apart from password not being remembered and Apple keychain does not work.

HC

 

[SpacePhoenix]

Try using Trace Route https://support247webs.com/windows-traceroute/ to see if there's a bottleneck in the connection between your computer and the servers

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Hmmm.... maybe I should just keep an eye on it for a while. It's only this site I'm getting the slowness with really.

A lot of the "waiting for" are for things like the cache ( 20% ), secure connection ( 10% ) and mainly things that look like ad site URLs ( 70% ).

Try using Trace Route https://support247webs.com/windows-traceroute/ to see if there's a bottleneck in the connection between your computer and the servers

"...cannot find tracert.railforums.co.uk...."

 

[Crossover]

"...cannot find tracert.railforums.co.uk...."

Do "tracert railforums.co.uk" without the quotation marks - it looks like you may have tried to traceroute tracert.railforums.co.uk so it is expecting to find a subdomain which it cannot

 

[455driver]

I'm surprised you can get a signal out in the bush.

Thats a funny place to keep your modem, doesnt it get wet?

 

[Passenger John]

No problems with Safari apart from password not being remembered and Apple keychain does not work.

HC

Exactly the same problems I have with safari but Apple MacBook Airs are never slow, don't have hard disks just solid state memory.

 

[Clip]

Working fine on IE

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Do "tracert railforums.co.uk" without the quotation marks - it looks like you may have tried to traceroute tracert.railforums.co.uk so it is expecting to find a subdomain which it cannot

Yes - I accidentally put the extra full stop in!

This time it gave a route containing 30 hops but the black box vanishes before it finishes listing things?

Meanwhile, here's a list of 12 of the most common things that appear in the bottom left corner that it is waiting for:

c.betrad.com
pool.admedo.com
ad.turn.com
dt.adsafeprotected.com
server.adformdsp.net
delivery.myswitchads.com
ad.doubleclick.net
c8.alamy.com
at.alenty.com
secure-ams.adnx.com
sp.adbrn.com
googleads.g.doubleclick.net

That's not an exclusive list, but it gives you an idea.

 

[SpacePhoenix]

Yes - I accidentally put the extra full stop in!

This time it gave a route containing 30 hops but the black box vanishes before it finishes listing things?

Meanwhile, here's a list of 12 of the most common things that appear in the bottom left corner that it is waiting for:

c.betrad.com
pool.admedo.com
ad.turn.com
dt.adsafeprotected.com
server.adformdsp.net
delivery.myswitchads.com
ad.doubleclick.net
c8.alamy.com
at.alenty.com
secure-ams.adnx.com
sp.adbrn.com
googleads.g.doubleclick.net

That's not an exclusive list, but it gives you an idea.

You can alter the number of "hops" that it shows. Are you sat behind a proxy server?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

You can alter the number of "hops" that it shows. Are you sat behind a proxy server?

1) How can I do that? 30 is just the result it shows me.

2) Not as far as I know. Is there any way I could tell if I am?




OK.... update on the situation ( saturday 13th )...

Tuesday evening was the regular monthly Microsoft update day; lo and behold when I switched on the next day site performance was back to normal both here and at work and so far it has remained thus.

I therefore conclude that whatever it was that was affecting it was fixed by the Microsoft update.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Now I've got this happening but only when on the forum. Any ideas? It's causing the web page to either close itself down or to go into compatibility mode.

Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: iexplore.exe
Application Version: 9.0.8112.16659
Application Timestamp: 556a4c5e
Hang Signature: 4a2c
Hang Type: 131072
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Hang Signature 1: 4a2c9b5de90ee42ebfb38d3136ccc8d2
Additional Hang Signature 2: d0fc
Additional Hang Signature 3: d0fc984141c1b3f3fa2f47f529e48987
Additional Hang Signature 4: 4a2c
Additional Hang Signature 5: 4a2c9b5de90ee42ebfb38d3136ccc8d2
Additional Hang Signature 6: d0fc
Additional Hang Signature 7: d0fc984141c1b3f3fa2f47f529e48987