The site is painfully slow for me lately. Pages either time-out or take 20+ seconds to load. Sometimes hitting refresh will cause the page to load quickly. Very frustrating.
The site is painfully slow for me lately. Pages either time-out or take 20+ seconds to load. Sometimes hitting refresh will cause the page to load quickly. Very frustrating.
Hi Drew.
I see you are a web development geek - do you perhaps have Firebug enabled ? There is a firebug issue that is causing google scripts to hang for ages at the moment. Try turning Firebug off, and then see if the problem goes away. If it does not, then lets look a little deeper.
Peter
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your quick reply. I am using Firebug, and switching over to Safari does help. My Firefox status bar appears to hang on "Waiting on gg.google.com..." if that helps any.
Thanks again!
-Drew
There is a known bug in the current release of Firebug. It will regularly stop when requesting google maps updates from gg.google.com. This will be fixed in the next firebug release.
Cheers
Peter
I'm not seeing the type of delays that the original poster talks of but I do think that the site seems to take some time to respond/load. This is the same on a Mac using Firefox or Safari as well as on a PC using Firefox.
Are there any plans to address this issue, as I know that I tend to be put off using a slow responding site?
I agree - compared with most other sites SfE can be slow at loading pages and this can be a significant downside for some users. The response doesn't appear to change whichever of my several browsers I use, nor with the time of day etc.
Something well worth addressing in my view.