Speed of the site

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Fri 17 Mar 2006 10:45
Speed of the site - Neiltoo
Am I alone in experiencing slowing speeds on accessing the HJ site? It's been getting worse for me over the last few days.
Am I alone?
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 10:56
Speed on the site - Carse
I am having similar issues, it seems extremely slow today!
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 10:59
Speed on the site - tr7v8
Unusable it's taken 10 minutes to log in & post this, I'll give up & go elsewhere!
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:03
Speed on the site - helicopter
It has taken me nearly five minutes to go from reading this thread to login to writing this - so yes, very slow.
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:18
Speed on the site - kingfisher
No problems here.
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:19
Speed on the site - Baskerville
No you're not alone.

But having looked into this just now if you install the Firefox adblock extension, then add *.intellitxt.*, *.doubleclick.*, and *.tangozebra.* to the preferences, the site speeds right back up again. So it's the amount of stuff you have to download from the advertising sites that is damaging the revenue-raising capabilities of this site. Ironic, innit?
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:25
Speed on the site - Wally Zebon
I thought it was my PC, as our database at work is also slow today!

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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:29
Speed on the site - SteVee
Baskerville - many thanks, that worked for me.
Tools->Adblock->Preferences
then add each of the three filters separately into the New Filer: box and press Enter.
Problem resolved.
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:25
Speed on the site - artful dodger {P}
No problems at all. I use Norton and have no problems at all.


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Fri 17 Mar 2006 11:31
Speed on the site - Adam {P}
I can't use the Firefox extension- I use Opera :-(
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Fri 17 Mar 2006 12:05
Speed on the site - Nsar
I timed it as 30 seconds from clicking "reply to this message" to seeing the log-in page. Starting typing and was prevented by the on-line survey floaty pop-up.
I can't access it fom home as I'm often on GPRS mobile connection and it's simply too slow unless I happen to get lucky with a bit of 3G. Dial-up would be a total non-starter.

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Fri 17 Mar 2006 12:32
Speed on the site - Dynamic Dave

Regarding the speed of the site.

It is something we are aware of and the matter is being looked into.

DD.

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Fri 17 Mar 2006 14:48
Speed of the site - Honestjohn
I have e-mailed the agency about that. Seems to me the problem is that whenever a pop up reappers it automatically goes through the entire sequence of re-loading all the ads. If you get impatient and click again while it's doing that you cause an even bigger problem. So the agency traffic department is looking at the way ads are loaded so pop ups don't drag everything else with them.

HJ
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