Steve Woodward Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Compared to every other website I go on, this site takes forever to load nearly every time. Sometimes it just will not load. Also moving around the site can be very slow. Is it my computer? Anyone else experience this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 No, I can't say I've had a problem with speed of loading. The forum software is alittle flakey in places, but speed is not the usual issue. It might be worthwhile mentioning what operating system and browser you are using, also which ISP - if others mention a speed issue it might help narrow down the cause. Speed is an issue that has been mentioned on another forum, and there most people have no problems, but some get slow speeds. I don't think they've narrowed down the issue yet. But, as I said, that's on a different forum! For the record I have no speed issues here, running Firefox 25.0.1 under Windows 7 Pro and using PlusNet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Miller Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Win8, Firefox 25.0.1 on Sky broadband and it is indeed the slowest of the websites that I regularly use; so much so that I usually open it in a separate tab whilst I read the BBC news in another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolstonFlyer Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 There is your problem right there.... Sky broadband!Seriously though I have seen the site running quite slowly sometimes, taking a few seconds or longer to load pages but other times it seems fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stevens 1 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 No problems here, loads up pretty quick for me - Running Win Xp, chrome browser and EE Broadband. One tip is to try clearing your browser cache as this will slow things if it is full or almost full. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Posted by Mark Stevens 1 on 27/11/2013 19:23:01: One tip is to try clearing your browser cache as this will slow things if it is full or almost full. I doubt it Mark! There's no reason a full cache should cause sites to display any slower, and a completely empty cache is almost guaranteed to make sites load more lowly until all the various files it caches are downloaded again rather than quickly retrieved from the cache. Clearing the cache can sometimes solve odd problems - like sites displaying old/inconsistent images etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolstonFlyer Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 The cache is there to speed up browsing. Things like images and in some cases style sheets and JacaScript files are saved to your local PC so that they are used rather than downloading the file from the websites server, hence speeding up the page loading.In a modern browser the cache does not get "full" as such but it can get quite big and the browser manages the size. Very old versions of Internet Explorer used to have a fixed cache size that you could manually increase under internet settings. This was because hard drives were quite small and expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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