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why does this site take forever to load?

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Not trying to diss the fantastic work of the mods here, but every page on this site takes forever to load up. Is there anything that can be done to lesson this time period?

When I leave this site and hit other forums, it's night and day where other sites navigate much quicker.

Just sayin'



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I really don't know what that could be, since I never have any trouble with it and it's not terribly heavy on graphics.

Does anyone else have trouble with load times?
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Yes, I occasionally have problems with load times. I use a Firefox browser; not sure if that has anything to do with the delay.

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Post by Homesick »

I'm working on a slight change of the site design that will reduce the size of the images required. If image size is a factor in this, this change should make things a little faster. Other than that, I'm not sure what could be causing long load times. I use Firefox as well, and that doesn't cause any troubles.
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Re: why does this site take forever to load?

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I usually don't have a problem here at home, but tried it last week from someone else's house where I was staying on vacation, and it just never even loaded (tried several times).

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I find it takes a long time, too. And very often the first attempt fails and I have to refresh the page to get it to load. Also using firefox. It doesn't bother me any, though.

I have noticed that the load time is variable, depending on what computer I'm using. And on whether or not I'm plugged in or wireless. Our individual connection speeds could have something to do with it, no? Or our machines in general?

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sheryl wrote:I find it takes a long time, too. And very often the first attempt fails and I have to refresh the page to get it to load. Also using firefox. It doesn't bother me any, though.

I have noticed that the load time is variable, depending on what computer I'm using. And on whether or not I'm plugged in or wireless. Our individual connection speeds could have something to do with it, no? Or our machines in general?
Not sure - I'm still int he internet dark ages here in terms of connection speed and computer speed/memory, but it actually works fine for me at home, strangely....

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