Discussion > Slow loading of Bishop Hill today anyone
Ditto. And ditto the OS and browser.
It's taken the best part of a minute to load the Discussion front page then 25 seconds to load the login page then another half-a-minute to load this page.
I know that 20 years ago we would have been more than delighted with that (and my dear, think of the cost! With all that dial-up thingy and everything) but sites like this wouldn't exist if those were the conditions we had to work under now.
Mike Jackson
It's fast for me.
Bishop Hill
Painfully slow for me (Win 7, Firefox). Has been so for the past couple of days.
Hector Pascal
No problems. PC/Firefox.
micael hart
slow in Northern France at 12:52 UK time. But usable.
Martin A
No problems with Firefox or Chrome from linux. Or my android phone.
Have you tried
http://www.bishop-hill.net/
I think we are supposed to use that, not squarespace.
Paul Matthews
Very slow and has been for a couple of days, I'm with BT and I'm using www.bishop-hill.net. I'm not seeing this problem on other sites.
Eddy
Slow since yesterday. FranceTelecom are playing silly buggers as well but as Eddy says the problem is only with bishop-hill.net.
I've checked DT, Scotsman, Meteo France & spikedonline just to make sure it's not me. No problems, there.
Mike Jackson
The site has been quite slow to load, for me for the past few days; I'm in London and on cable broadband, using Firefox 12.0, which admittedly is ancient - also tried with Midori 0.4.3, which is faster but only just (O/S is Linux Mint 13).
The time of day might make a difference, possibly - was going to comment this morning at around 8:15 before going to work, but ran out of time, because the page didn't load! It seems faster now (early evening) - not sure that's actually relevant, though.
Alex Cull
Can you try clearing cache and deleting cookies please.
Bishop Hill
Slow for me since the day before yesterday Win7 Firefox and BB playbook but fast on iPad2. Toronto, Canada.
clipe
Well, view from here, so to speak, is that after clearing cache and deleting cookies (using XP as updated as I could get it and either Chrome or Firefox) is that it's still verrry slow (except for the top ad ... which consistently comes through almost instantly).
Same problem on my iPad (using Chrome or Safari)
Hilary Ostrov
Still very slow in Normandy. Not unusable, though.
Martin A
I'm in the UK, I've got the latest Firefox with cookies turned off and it works fine.
TinyCO2
Hilary
Just to make sure, have you deleted all cookies from Squarespace.com?
Bishop Hill
Bish,
Yes I have done that (now for squarespace.com too) ... it's a little faster, but not like other sites and/or that to which I've become accustomed here :-(
Also, was just checking "Preview post" on this one and it was like molasses ... except for the ad at the top! (using Chrome at the moment ... but Firefox, which I also tried, wasn't much better)
[Edit via my iPad] still not what it used to be ... but faster than it was earlier.
Hilary Ostrov
I'm also having problems - e.g. 30 seconds or more to load the front page.
I get the same problem on my computer at home (Windows 7 64-bit, Firefox, BT Broadband) and on my office computer (Vista 32-bit, Chrome, Demon). I also see the problem on the home iPad.
I just tried deleting all bishophill and squarespace cookies but I still have the problem. It started a few days ago; I've never noticed the site being slow before that.
TheSkyIsFalling
I have W7/Chrome.
The headings, adverts and side panel appear after 10 to 20 seconds, which is much slower than usual, but the article summaries take well over a minute.
Accepting the update of a new post was not that slow, but the displaying of it is.
Robert Christopher
One thing that helped me on all sites was turning Adobe Flash onto 'always ask'. It stopped long video adverts loading when I didn't want them to.
TinyCO2
Another site I go to also slowed considerably when they added Facebook Like and Twitter buttons.
TinyCO2
Constant timeouts here. "Problem loading page".
No other sites are giving me these problems, so I'm not going to be deleting cookies and re-starting Firefox etc etc. I realise that you don't care. It's your problem, not mine.
Hector Pascal
Pascal, if the problem is an advert, then the issue may only exist for those who are getting it. That might be based on where you are and/or your search profile. Without knowing which advert, how could the Bish cure the problem?
TinyCO2
I have Flash and Silverlight disabled but I'm still getting the problem. It also occurs on the iPad, so I don't think it's a plugin issue.
Interestingly, things seem to work fine just at the moment. Has something been fixed in the last couple of hours?
TheSkyIsFalling
Not that I'm aware of.
Bishop Hill
Is http://bishophill.squarespace.com/ loading slowly for everyone, or is it just my PC being silly?
Win 7 (64)
Firefox
'twas like this earlier too.