1src Forums - Comments on site speed

03-25-2003, 08:27 AM	#1
Reggie 1src Founder Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Charleston Posts: 1,958	Comments on site speed We just enabled compression on the site to have pages render faster as well as lower the bandwidth. Recently, the server was reporting an average of 1.2GB of bandwidth per day(!). We hope that it goes down at least 40%. The consequence though is increase in processor activity in our server. We are confident though that it could manage the load. We would like to hear from you if there is indeed a significant speed in loading the pages as well as if there are problems. Thanks. ClieSource Team

03-25-2003, 09:23 AM	#2
aaronrkelly Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Moravia, IA Posts: 465	I can notice an improvement - 256k wireless connection. __________________ Aaron R Kelly aaronrkelly@hotmail.com

03-25-2003, 09:26 AM	#3
Alistar Technowizard Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 1,133	I can notice the difference, definitely better.

03-25-2003, 10:25 AM	#4
fishbulb Senior Member Silver Contributor Join Date: May 2002 Location: PA Posts: 43	I don't know if this is related to this new compression or not, but I'm suddenly getting a lot of empty pages. It appears to be a server-related problem, because the browser receives <html><body></body></html> tags with no content inbetween. If I refresh, the page usually shows up, so it seems to be happening at random. Mozilla 1.3b on Windows XP

03-25-2003, 10:33 AM	#5
Reggie 1src Founder Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Charleston Posts: 1,958	Hmm. It must be browser related. Here's the info I found about it: Netscape 6 & 7 and Mozilla 0.9.x & 1.x This browser uses HTTP/1.1. From Netscape 6.2 on (= Mozilla 0.9.4), it is sending the header Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9. Mozilla 0.9.9+ und Netscape 7.0PR1 allow the user to define the HTTP version as well as the content of this headers in its configuration; in Mozilla 1.1alpha this function is no longer visible in the preferences but can be defined in the configuration file defaults/pref/all.js (under the name network.http.accept-encoding). Processing compressed content works if the browser has requested compressed content; otherwise it ignores the HTTP header Content-Encoding: gzip although it would be able to decompress the content. I will try to install Mozilla when I get home. Regards. __________________ Reggie Suplido 1SRC

03-26-2003, 10:07 AM	#6
rldunn Michigan Mod Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Brighton, MI USA Posts: 2,275	It seemed fine yesterday, but today it has seemed much slower for me. A few times, it took over a minute after I clicked on a link for it to switch, and this is with a broadband connection.

03-27-2003, 09:42 AM	#7
Reggie 1src Founder Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Charleston Posts: 1,958	Hi Rod, There might be some delays when accessing the site during the x:00-ish times since the server flushes log files every hour. For the past two days, besides the faster rendering of pages, we noticed a 45% decrease in bandwidth which we thought was pretty impressive. Thanks. __________________ Reggie Suplido 1SRC

03-28-2003, 10:07 AM	#8
rldunn Michigan Mod Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Brighton, MI USA Posts: 2,275	It's been really slow today at all times of the hour.

04-01-2003, 11:19 AM	#9
inthetin Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 21	I'm running "Safari" and it loads pages faster than I.Explorer, however this is not helping on ClieSource. I noticed today that when there are about 150+ users, that page loads are about 15 seconds. Is this due to ClieSource Staff's new compression and decision to lower bandwidth?

04-01-2003, 05:01 PM	#10
Macabre Man Caffiene Kid Join Date: May 2002 Location: Over there Posts: 176	Its the Undead threads fault! Damn those people! Last edited by Macabre Man : 04-01-2003 at 05:05 PM.

04-01-2003, 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by Macabre Man
Its all the UDT's fault!

Damn those people!

I thought it was all the TT owners that just can't leave this place!!

04-01-2003, 05:06 PM	#12
Macabre Man Caffiene Kid Join Date: May 2002 Location: Over there Posts: 176

04-01-2003, 05:08 PM	#13
Rizal fallen but not forgotten Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 105	I also experience a very noticeable slow down the entire day today. Oh well, if it helps keep this site going I can deal with it.