RR Site slow to load

LYNJ_OEM3298 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-19-2012, 4:49 PM

I don't think its network traffic, but as of 17:45 EDT the Radio Reference site is very slow to load. Looks like its hanging up on an external server linking page "ajax.googleapis.com"

Please check!

Thanks
Ken

rdale · #2 (**permalink**) 12-19-2012, 5:27 PM

We are on EST now, unless you're forecasting a slowdown in the next 20 minutes

troymail · #3 (**permalink**) 12-19-2012, 6:27 PM

Slow for me also -- for the last hour (or more?).. Banner appears but the rest of the page(s) are slow to load

Maybe all the bandwidth and resources are being given to Christmas shopping sites

trsundstrom · #4 (**permalink**) 12-19-2012, 6:38 PM

Wirelessly posted (Moto Droid Bionic: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; DROID BIONIC Build/6.7.2-223_DBN_M4-23) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30)

The RR "mobeel" site is zooming right along...

troymail · #5 (**permalink**) 12-19-2012, 6:39 PM

Now it looks really fast.... it must have been a really "big" Christmas list/order....

troymail · #6 (**permalink**) 12-20-2012, 4:40 PM

Seems to be acting up again today -- just the forums pages -- other pages seem to be loading fine.

jfhtm350 · #7 (**permalink**) 12-20-2012, 7:56 PM

LYNJ_OEM3298 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-27-2012, 3:23 PM

Here we go again, I don't know if this a network (internet) connectivity problem or is it something specific to my location geographically and my connection.

RR Page hangs up awaiting this page to load in browser (Firefox). maps.gstatic.com

Go figure?

trsundstrom · #9 (**permalink**) 12-27-2012, 4:24 PM

Wirelessly posted (Moto Droid Bionic: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; DROID BIONIC Build/6.7.2-223_DBN_M4-23) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30)

Ken, I would suggest you look at your speed problem with a traceroute program. Whereas users blame the host site, more often I find the problem is in the backbone. Perhaps your connectivity is affected by Citibank troubles; as I write this major pieces of the siite are down. Amazon's servers failed on Christmas Eve, taking Netflix down for hours. I don't know what OS you use, but if Windows I can recommend (as a user since the '90s) Visualware's software as best of breed. A eoy sale is offering 50-80% off until the 31st. Window's traceroute command is available in a CMD box. If you are on an Android phone/tablet I can recommend the free 'TracePing' in the Play store. Overall, I find the traceroute data puts a kibosh on the usual tech support questions and answers of reboot/reinstall/reconnect that drives me crazy. HTH.

LYNJ_OEM3298 · #10 (**permalink**) 12-27-2012, 5:00 PM

Tom,

Backbone is a possibility, but go figure, I work at a data center right on should I say "In" the internet.
So it could be data center's servers access to the rest of the internet. As I write this the issue has cleared.

Thanks

trsundstrom · #11 (**permalink**) 12-27-2012, 6:49 PM

Wirelessly posted (Moto Droid Bionic: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; DROID BIONIC Build/6.7.2-223_DBN_M4-23) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...013526472.html may offer some insight on the network. I just read this a few min ago. Pretty interesting. Ken, I didn't know of your work.

jfhtm350 · #12 (**permalink**) 12-27-2012, 9:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jersey_Ken

Here we go again, I don't know if this a network (internet) connectivity problem or is it something specific to my location geographically and my connection.

RR Page hangs up awaiting this page to load in browser (Firefox). maps.gstatic.com

Go figure?

I have maps.gstatic.com files in my temporary internet files and it appears that it is images and javascripts for google maps. I have been to the maps.google.com site. I dont see anywhere on Radio Reference that it would be loading maps.gstatic.com unless you are on the repeater map section. Do you have some kind of google map addon installed in your browser?

Seems like you have a google server problem as per your first post.