Long page loads

is it just me?

[dingman]

Lately, if I don't load a Webmaster World page for a little while, the next page load from WW will take an extremely long time. Minutes. More than one of them. Thereafter, pages load just fine until the next time I leave for a little while. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm browsing from home or from work, or what browser I'm using that day. Is this happening to anyone else, or is it just me?

-Andrew

[lawman]

Working fine for me.

lawman

[Robert Charlton]

This hasn't been happening for me either. A year or two back I did have a problem that was similar, and Brett's suggestion that I delete my cookies fixed it. I'm not sure that cookies are that relevant to site operation any more, though; and since the problem is browser and location independent, I'm not even sure that cookies could be doing it... but you might want to give it a shot.

Otherwise, clear out your temporary internet files. Maybe they're clogged up on all machines.

[dingman]

Otherwise, clear out your temporary internet files. Maybe they're clogged up on all machines.

Disk cache size is set to zero in this browser. So that's not it :) I'll try the cookies thing.

[sun818]

Are you on dial-up? If so, the modem dialing and connecting could be the lag. Other times, I just refresh the screen which will load the page quickly.

[dingman]

1500/285Kbps ADSL with a /29 IP block at home :)
Major US university LAN at work.

Resetting cookies didn't entirely fix it, but my first page load today took most of a minute, rather than several.

[Brett_Tabke]

hmm - there's something else going on there dingman. I can't see that it is anything on this side. I checked your member file and that was all a-okay.

What's a traceroute say?

[dingman]

dingman@andrew:~$ traceroute www.webmasterworld.com
traceroute to www.webmasterworld.com (64.33.51.156), 30 hops max, 38 byte packet
s
6 sl-gw4-roa-3-0-TS1.sprintlink.net (160.81.15.89) 22.247 ms 22.938 ms 23.005 ms
7 sl-bb22-roa-2-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.17.205) 23.889 ms 22.174 ms 22.637 ms
8 sl-bb22-chi-6-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.81) 148.305 ms 59.450 ms 38.508 ms
9 sl-st20-chi-14-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.84) 26.519 ms 26.337 ms 26.475 ms
10 so-1-0-3.chcgil3-hcr1.bbnplanet.net (4.24.95.13) 26.328 ms 26.237 ms 26.205 ms
11 so-4-0-0.chcgil2-br1.bbnplanet.net (4.0.1.182) 27.930 ms 24.619 ms 25.245 ms
12 p1-0.chcgil2-cr1.bbnplanet.net (4.24.7.134) 26.390 ms 25.450 ms 26.966 ms
13 p1-0.onlinemllc3.bbnplanet.net (4.24.202.18) 27.909 ms 26.581 ms 28.365 ms
14 64.33.51.156 (64.33.51.156) 27.708 ms 28.253 ms 29.336 ms
dingman@andrew:~$