Comments on: Site Load Problems Alleviated

By: 2Hotel9

2Hotel9 — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:44:51 +0000

Wow! And I thought everything was better because I just got the laptop back from Da Geek. Had an advert-trojan that I just could not get rid of. Littlesister ran it to ground and stomped it to death. First thing I did when I got back online was email a reservation for her at her favorite waterhole. Next time she walks in the door her money ain't no good, and somebody is going to have to carry her out. Glad your getting the tech-issues cleared up, you have spoiled me with a blog that works, and rapidly, all the time.

By: MikeAdamson

MikeAdamson — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:51:55 +0000

me too

By: robport

robport — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:45:18 +0000

The ad was causing the problem, and PJ media took it out of cicrulation. Everything should be working smoothly now.

Things are certainly loading quickly for me.

By: MikeAdamson

MikeAdamson — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:35:41 +0000

All hail to the King of Fools!

By: King of Fools

King of Fools — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:04:19 +0000

Ok, the sidebar issue has been narrowed down to a specific Advertisement. I think Rob will be contacting the people and get them to fix it soon.

By: King of Fools

King of Fools — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:27:44 +0000

The tricky thing is sometimes the ads load very quickly. And sometimes, it just never finishes. The ads do appear so the issue appears to be the tracking code in the page footer.

But it is really difficult to measure this kind of thing without touching that code, which is something that would probably be unacceptable to them. I did add some simple javascript to the body onload tag, and it was telling me the page was loading in .134 seconds (when it was taking several minutes to complete).

By: robport

robport — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:26:35 +0000

Actually, the King (who does most of the maintenance around here) thinks we may have isolated it to Pajamas counter code in the footer.

Everything seems to be loading quickly to day though.

By: thatedeguy

thatedeguy — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:22:25 +0000

One thing you could do is to clear your computer's cache, and time the load on the site. Then, clear your cache again, remove the pajamas ad and time again. Of course, you can't leave the pajamas ad out, but it would give you an idea as to how much time it's adding to the load time. And a little ammo if you need to argue with them about it.

By: King of Fools

King of Fools — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:17:38 +0000

Pages are loading like lighting for me this morning. So much better than the pages that never finished loading even after 5 minutes. (Never interfered with reading or anything since the content was all visible…but the site is really screaming this morning.)

By: robport

robport — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:22:33 +0000

One thing to keep in mind is that in November of last year SA had just under 50,000 unique visits and 100,000 page views. Last month SA had 110,000 unique visits and 190,000 page views.

Traffic has doubled in less than a year. And commenting activity is way up. I don't have accurate stats on that, but just eyeballing it SA was getting about 100 – 200 comments a day just a year ago. Now we're routinely hitting 500.

The server loads are significant. We do our best to keep things running smoothly, but I just don't have a lot of money to throw at hosting and such.