Is it me---or is DU running awfully slow the last couple of days?

[trumad]

I'm browsing fine until I click on DU.

OK---sure enough---as soon as I posted this it's running fast again.

You fucking with me Earl?

[hobbit709]

1. Been stuttering on and off for weeks now

[snooper2]

2. It's Hillary's website mining your machine for data

just close it LOL

[RKP5637]

3. It comes and goes. I have a 25 mps line and sometimes I can hardly get

DU to load/refresh. Other times it's super fast. I've heard a server upgrade is in the works down the road.

[trumad]

4. Going a bit slow again.

[progressoid]

5. Hope a server upgrade is in the works.

It's going to really start to bog down when the election gets hotter.

[RKP5637]

7. It's an incredible sw app they developed, just thinking about all of the

capabilities of DU, it's incredible. I'm an IT person, feels like a classical case of server thrashing ... just needs an upgrade. Yep, definitely, it's going to get a real load on it as the election approaches.

[jwirr]

27. I get what you are describing plus when I try to post

it either will not work or it post several times. I am also having trouble with videos but I don't think that is because of DU. Seems to be some trouble with Windows 10.

[Sunlei]

6. It's all the ads scripting & grabbing with their cookies.

try the site not logged in and you'll see the ramp-up of info flowing from your computer or 'device'.

I guess it will take an IT person and an upgrade? to make the ads not even 'start' to use/drain our resources if there is a "star". There must be a way to do that but I'm not very savvy about servers or the way ads script/HOOK on message boards.

[Travis_0004]

8. Ads are not typically hosted on the same server

The ads should be hosted on Google. All DU is is going is running a small script to tell google where to put the ads, which shouldn't take too many resources on DU's servers.

[Sunlei]

11. I'm ignorant about the way online ads work.

what I was trying to say is it seems like those with a star & logged in ('star members'do not even see ads if logged in) our devices/PC are 'hooked' by something at the point of entry to DU.

It could very well be the google server, the way they mesh with the DU servers.

I've always avoided any "stay logged on" to google, their google plus, youtube or any of their services because then it's really noticeable to me the slowdown. on all my PCs, even tablets or my cell phone.

[Denzil_DC]

15. Nevertheless, whatever servers are hosting the ads are very often taking ages to load,

and holding up the rest of the content displaying (though DU itself is snail's pace at times here too).

This is evident by Firefox with a non-subscriber account showing messages indicating goodle ads and google-syndication links - along with sometimes blogads, scorecardresearch, securepubads or other ad farms, it's not just Google - loading, which can take a minute or two, or at worst seemingly never resolve.

I wonder if there's a way of recoding the pages so that content display doesn't hang while the adservers are responding. As a non-subscriber, I've no objection to seeing ads in lieu, but quite often I just give up waiting nowadays and go elsewhere online as there's no guarantee I'll be able to see any threads I click on or do any of the other things you'd normally take for granted.

[jwirr]

28. Your last paragraph: Most of the time it will not even

let me move the content up or down until everything on the page I am trying to move to is loaded.

[Denzil_DC]

29. Yeah, it hangs the page

and also activity in any other tabs I might have open.

DU roulette!

[Denzil_DC]

39. I finally got so fed up I installed Ghostery for Firefox, as I was barely visiting DU any more.

After blocking ad trackers, the site is now usable again - just the occasional wait for the DU server, but no more waiting for the adservers to resolve.

[Omaha Steve]

9. It has been off & on for a while but has been worse this AM

No idea why.

OS

[Sunlei]

12. if you're logged on to google plus, youtube or any google service try logging off those.

edited to add, face book as well

[Omaha Steve]

32. That is not it

[Nay]

10. Yes, very much so. Sometimes I have to just go away or click twice to get

somewhere on the site, or enter the site at all. It doesn't happen with other sites. What's going on?

[Capt. Obvious]

13. Today it's awful

Just picked up the pace though

[HuckleB]

14. It's not just you.

Ugh.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Same Here As The Others

I see an awfully large number of "waitings". Like the connection first gets made, then nothing for a while. When it loads, it loads fast. Network issue between the servers?

[MineralMan]

17. Over in Ask the Administrators, that question has been asked

a number of times, and answered by the admins. They're going to upgrade their servers to get better speed. It's in progress. They've said that more than a few times to questions in that forum, which is designed for questions about DU. If you go there, you'll see the questions, along with the answers from the admins.

[trumad]

18. Thanks Dad

[MineralMan]

19. I'm not your father, trumad.

I'm just making a suggestion about where you can find the answer to your question. It's up to you whether to go look there. That's where the admins answer questions like yours, though. They almost never do that in GD. Just being helpful.

[trumad]

20. You have no self awareness of your condescending know it all attitude to other DU'ers.

No clue do you?

I know where the fuck the Ask Admin section is here at DU. I asked fellow DUers if they are having problems or is it my computer.

[MineralMan]

21. I'm afraid you have no idea what my awareness of anything might be.

Yes, you know where ATA is. The answer to your question is there. And no, EarlG isn't "fucking" with you. Neither am I.

Here's a thread in ATA that answers your question. Skinner addresses it in a reply:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12598572

[trumad]

24. Dude---Dad!

of course Earl isn't fucking with me! It's a fucking Joke!

Seriously ever since you left Free Republic and logged onto this site you have been an amazing know it all.

[MineralMan]

25. Dude---I was banned at that other site in 2006.

I joined DU in 2008. I didn't even visit DU until 2008. So, you're bringing up stuff from 9 years ago? WTF?

I don't know. It just seems odd somehow. I won't go there any more. You can keep bringing it up, but I'm not going to participate other than to explain once again that I was banned at that website for "anti-freeping."

[trumad]

34. Let's not rewrite history...

how long were you on that site...and how many bigot posts did you write?

Don't try to rewrite your history over there because the Internet is forever.

[MineralMan]

35. I have seven years of history right here.

You keep bringing up stuff from 9 years ago and older. I won't play. Check my history here.

[MineralMan]

37. I'll be posting as I choose, as always, trumad.

Count on it. I see no reason to not post my opinion on this website.

[trumad]

38. Of course---

Would not expect anything else from you.

[tkmorris]

26. Sure he does trumad

It's an affectation. Like a long time acquaintance suddenly brandishing a briarwood pipe that they never light.

[trumad]

33. LOL

I can totally see that.

[Autumn]

22. Yes, I am having the same issue.

[steve2470]

23. read this, please

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1095&pid=14771

[randome]

30. It's you. Run faster.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Go Vols]

31. Maybe try one of these

http://betterment.democraticunderground.com
http://election.democraticunderground.com
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com
http://sync.democraticunderground.com
http://upload.democraticunderground.com