Ultra slow page load

[Barb T]

I'm in Iceland, and the Xmarks site is really really slow - more than 10X slower than any other site, including my email which is commonly slow when I'm away from campus. Any idea what the issue is??

I just loaded a page from the Forum, and it took over a minute to completely load a page. I then tried several other sites - it took 3 seconds to load Scottish Tartans Museum; 4 seconds for ScotWeb; 5 seconds for USAKilts; 3 seconds for Freedom Kilts; 3 seconds for my own site.

Anyway, 60 seconds seems awfully long to load a forum page. And it's been like this for the past week, at least from Iceland. I can't think of a logical reason why XMarks should be 10-20X slower than everything else that I try to get to from here.

So, it's taken me nearly 5 minutes to navigate to this "new thread" page so that I can make this post!!

[Standard]

Barb, I have this trouble at times when logging on from my phone, but never in all my travels have I experienced what you are going through. Hope it works out, but I can't think of any practical advice to offer you.

[Woodsheal]

X-Marks is slower than any other websites I visit, and this has been driving me nuts for weeks - and I'm not in Iceland!

[Steve Ashton]

I'm very sorry Barb. I know of no reason why the forum should be so slow. Bummer though.

I'll look into it.

"Be Calm and Carry On"

[cryerelizabeth]

For me it's usually OK on the loading time, sometimes it takes a bit though, but otherwise it's bearable

[M. A. C. Newsome]

This forum has been very slow to load for me, as well, for the past few weeks I'd say. It's not universally slow. Sometimes a page will load right up, other times it takes forever. I haven't had this problem with any other site that I have noticed. And I'm just as likely to have a problem logging in from work as from home.

[Barb T]

Well, something has clearly happened. The pages now load in a few seconds. Whoever fixed it, and whatever they did, thanks!!

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I'm checking in now from a hotel in Charlotte and it's loading very fast for me, as well. Don't know if it is due to a different location or if something did happen to fix the problem.

[Adrian]

I've experienced some performance issues with particular threads which has usually been down to how the pictures are posted in the thread. Still we've have to remember the internet is like a big motor way with traffic bottlenecks everyone is in a different place and not all of the content for a webpage comes from the same place....

[Grizzly]

Have just downloaded Google Chrome and now its so fast I cant keep up. wish I had done it months ago.