Site is slow again.

[chebby]

I have just tested my broadband speed between here and London and here to the USA as well. 19.6 Mbps and 20.13 Mbps respectively.

Repeated page refreshes on flickr (lots of data in the form of photos) are very quick.

BBC iPlayer (HD) works fine as usual.

What Hi-fi? forum ground to a halt (again). Wait 5 minutes and might get lucky for a minute or two before it freezes.

This has become the norm lately. (Although the Christmas and New Year period were ok.)

Does anyone else experience this regularly? Are the staff aware of problems?

 

[Andrew Everard]

Are the staff aware of problems?

Not aware of any specific problems today, and strange you say Christmas/New Year were better, as the site was really being hammered with traffic during that time.

 

[The_Lhc]

I'm finding it a lot better now than it was earlier today or yesterday following the little "glitch".

 

[BigH]

I found it always to be slow, maybe thats why so many blank posts etc. Why do I have to use letter verify on long posts?

 

[CnoEvil]

I find at times, pages take a long time to appear.....but never know whether it's at my end......but don't think it is, as everything else is reasonably fast.

It's all right atm though, but was slow this morning.

 

[Dave_]

I get the same thing regularly, though not that bad today

-- Round Trip Time (rtt) ---
min 27.431 ms
avg 27.548 ms
max 27.666 ms
mdev 0.148 ms

 

[BigH]

Also on post titles why don't you limit to 64 characters so when you try to reply you don't get warnings all the time?

 

[Andrew Everard]

Why do I have to use letter verify on long posts?

Have modified your account so you should no longer have to do the word-verification thing.

 

[BigH]

Why do I have to use letter verify on long posts?

Have modded your account so you should no longer have to do the word-verification thing.

OK thanks it was mainly when quoting someone else's post that it happened.

 

[Andrew Everard]

Also on post titles why don't you limit to 64 characters so when you try to reply you don't get warnings all the time?

No idea on that one: it appears to be a site glitch which no-one with pens in their top pockets seems to be able to resolve.

 

[BigH]

Also on post titles why don't you limit to 64 characters so when you try to reply you don't get warnings all the time?

No idea on that one: it appears to be a site glitch which no-one with pens in their top pockets seems to be able to resolve.

Can't they just make the title space shorter?

 

[Andrew Everard]

Can't they just make the title space shorter?

You'd think, wouldn't you?

 

[ayjaycee]

Agree with everything Chebby says - the site has very tempramental of late and today is even worse than usual. And, yes, my broadband speeds are good.

 

[CnoEvil]

I find at times, pages take a long time to appear.....but never know whether it's at my end......but don't think it is, as everything else is reasonably fast.

It's all right atm though, but was slow this morning.

Spoke too soon. Now slow and clunky, with "Site offline" appearing all too regularly.

 

[BigH]

Not too bad at the moment and my speeds are pretty good for Broadband around 19mb which is pretty good for this area but WhatHiFi site is the slowest I go into on a regular basis. It is frustrating when you try to post some comments and you lose them all. Other sites like Flickr are much faster and don't seem to have these problems.

 

[Andy Clough]

I have raised this issue with our technical team and pointed them to this thread.

 

[RobinKidderminster]

I too find word verification annoying tho it seems to occur many times but for short periods. Wonder what the 'rules' are. Slow too sometimes but I always attributed it to my end. Cheers

 

[MajorFubar]

Taking ages and ages here. If WHF was the only place I ever visited I'd swear I was still connected via an acoustic-coupler modem, not broadband.

 

[sogophonio11]

Slow here today also. But have become accustomed to it now!

 

[MajorFubar]

I've never yet understood how the billion-and-one amateur websites and vBulletin / phpBB forums out there manage to be faster, are more stable, and get by with less ads that this one, which is affiliated to a professional magazine and a respected publisher. Is it because some dodgy contract is squeezing you til your eyeballs pop but behind the scenes it's running your website on a couple of ZX Spectrums and a batch of microdrives...

 

[The_Lhc]

Seems to be working fine to me at the moment, for a change.

 

[bigboss]

Yes, seems fine today so far. At times, it does become painfully slow.

 

[Dougal1331]

I find that the site is often paifully slow, particularly in the forums when looking at multi-page threads. Sometimes multiple refreshes are needed.

However, this only really occurs in Google Chrome, Firefox seems totally fine!

If any of the folks above who are having issues are using Chrome, try a different browser- it could just be one of those little internet idiosyncracies...

 

[relocated]

My access to the Forum is more or less hopeless today and it has been really poor since the recent meltdown.

Access to other parts of the site are better than to the forum. I run Chrome but have nil problems with other sites and a forum, line speed @5mbps.

 

[SpiceWeasel]

I have found the site to be really slow since about xmas time, although some days it does appear to work as it should. It took about 40 seconds to open a thread a bit earlier on with the usuall "waiting for whathifi.com" showing at the bottom of my browser. I am using firefox via a 60mb connection and other websites etc are fine, just done a speed test and have just over 54mb download with about 5mb upload.

Pc is fully updated with anti virus and malware scans etc all done. Other websites all work as normal so don't think it is a problem at my end. Some days the speed of the site can vary quite a bit with one thread taking say 20 seconds to load up and then the next thread almost instantly, then back to 30 second wait etc.