ASF Site Performance

[finnsk]

Mine is Telstra cable but only problem opening "The future of Australian property price"

 

[Joe Blow]

What are you saying Joe, maybe Telstra is targeting ASF and no one else's website?

The technicians at the host said that they have had some other complaints about slow page loading times from other clients and after conducting an investigation had come to the conclusion that these issues were ISP related.

I didn't question them further about this but thought it was possible that a pattern may emerge if people who were experiencing performance issues posted which ISP they were using.

 

[Uncle Festivus]

I've tried 3 different computers at 3 locations - 2 with iPrimus and one at work, ISP unknown, all have the same symptoms of slow page load times up to 20-30sec and 'Waiting for response from ASF" in lower bar. Using Firefox & IE. Going on for a few weeks now.

 

[Julia]

Westnet. ADSL 2. Using Firefox.

 

[pixel]

Vividwireless

10 Mbps down, 2 Mbps up; 70 ms ping to local hub
using hubs in Brisbane or Sydney, download speeds are virtually the same; uploading takes 3-4 times as long, and Pings are between 100 and 120 ms. Not bad from Perth.

Windows 7 and 8.1 (2 PCs)
Firefox latest update

ASF isn't always slow in responding. Usually, reactions are as quick as any other site. Only on odd occasions, the "busy" rotor may turn for 30 seconds or longer. I haven't found any pattern yet, except that it seems to be from ASF server down to me. I say t hat because on occasion, when I upload a new or save an edited post, the result fails to display in my browser; but when I then request the same thread in another tab/window, or on the other PC, the updated text appears as expected.

PS: Made 2 amendments; saved version came back within under 2 seconds.

 

[nulla nulla]

Telstra Big pond Cable:
Download speed 113 mbps; and
upload speed 2.6mbps.

laptop runs:
Windows 8.1;
16 gig ddr3l ram;
Intel i7-4700mq cpu;

All other sites fine.

 

[nulla nulla]

Telstra Big pond Cable:
Download speed 113 mps; and
upload speed 2.6mps.

laptop runs:
Windows 8.1;
16 gig ddr3l ram;
Intel i7-4700mq cpu; and
internet explorer 11.

All other sites fine.

 

[nulla nulla]

Hi Joe,

I edited my initial post and saved it and it came up as a second post ????

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi Joe,

I edited my initial post and saved it and it came up as a second post ????

I'm not sure why that happened. Please let me know if it happens again. Hopefully it was just a glitch.

 

[Joe Blow]

Thank you to all who have posted details of their ISP and other relevant information.

Rest assured I am investigating this issue further, and will update everyone when I know more.

 

[Joe Blow]

Has anyone noticed any improvement, or are page loading times still slow?

 

[Uncle Festivus]

Still slow, in fact probably a bit slower - tried the property and gold threads and waited for up to a minute (property) for them to load, but after that they loaded relatively fast. Tried a few others with no pattern ie some would load instantly and yet others had to have a think about it. Appears to be thread size related??? as the larger ones took the longest time to load initially??

 

[Julia]

About the same for me, Joe. It's not all the time. Not usually a problem if just reading through a thread, going to the next one, but if, eg writing, checking, posting and then editing a post that can often result in long delays.

This morning the site came up quickly but there was about a 40 sec wait after I'd gone to Quick Links, then Today's Posts.

 

[pixel]

This afternoon, response times are much slower than usual.
The first call-up took about a minute; requesting "Today's posts" not much quicker.
Bringing up this thread and opening it for a reply took still 15-20 seconds.

However, earlier today I also had almost instantaneous response. So it's very inconsistent.

PS: Ookla Speedtest reports about 10 Mbps to my local node (Perth), and only about 1 Mbps slower to Sydney. So it's unlikely related to the distance.
Anyway, the last update (PS) was accepted and confirmed within a second...

 

[Joe Blow]

Sill working on this. Thank you all for your patience.

If those of you who have been experiencing slow page loading times could let me know if you notice an improvement I would be very appreciative.

I'm trying different things to try and improve performance. Please let me know if you notice a difference.

 

[notting]

Been slow for me.
Little better last day or two.

 

[Joe Blow]

Just another quick update on this. In the next day or so ASF will be moving to a new server that should perform much better than the one we are currently on.

I will update this thread once the server migration is complete. Hopefully there will be a significant improvement in performance once we are on the new server.

 

[pixel]

Thanks Joe,

earlier this morning, one of my replies timed out completely; but when I requested ASF from scratch and recalled the thread, response time was again a couple of seconds, and my reply turned out to have been accepted.

I'll watch with interest how the new server will perform.

 

[Boggo]

Hi Joe

Seems to be a bit of a delay in threads loading.

I just posted in the Potential Breakouts thread, no piccy, just a link and some text I timed at 23 seconds from when I clicked Submit Reply until it appeared.

Site is not really slow as such but it definitely takes much longer to load than what it used to.

(Edit - This initial post above only took seven secs !)

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi Boggo, ASF was supposed to move to a new server today but due to a technical problem we are now scheduled to migrate to the new server tomorrow morning sometime.

Hopefully by tomorrow afternoon these slow page loading times will be a thing of the past.

Apologies for the delay.