IE 9 and Audiocircle

rcag_ils · « **on:** 24 Oct 2011, 05:36 pm »

Ever since I upgraded to IE 9, it started having problem with Audiocircle. It's slow, sometimes it doesn't load, just had a dark gray screen.

Also impossible to upload pictures to gallary. Has Audiocircle IT department contact Microsoft about this?

wilsynet · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 06:11 pm »

If you use Firefox or Chrome, do you have the same problem with AudioCircle?

rcag_ils · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 06:25 pm »

I don't have firefox. When I use chrome, it gets slow too, but at least I can upload pictures to gallary. IE 9 works OK with everything else for the most part. IE 9 still has bug with some website, but affecting Audiocircle the most. That dark gray screen is very annoying,

I upload picture with chrome, then look at it with IE 9.

keenween · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 07:50 pm »

i use firefox. audiocircle is the slowest loading site i visit. it won't load every couple of days, i thought the server was going down periodically.

tomytoons · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 08:33 pm »

Latest Firefox 7.01, same here the last 2 weeks Audio Circle is very slow loading sometimes timing out. What's up?

Spirit · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 08:51 pm »

I use Chrome and it really quick!!

Nick77 · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 09:00 pm »

Slowest website i visit also, mostly just recently. (IE9)

Goosepond · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 09:05 pm »

I've got Firefox 7.01. Of course living down here in Louisiana near the end of the world, I figured it was just me.

It makes me feel much better to know that others are having the same crappy response times I've been having. Sometimes it times out, sometimes like just now it loads normally. Very aggravating. I thought maybe it was just overloaded at various times.

Gene

srb · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 09:06 pm »

I have experienced slowness and unresponsiveness from AudioCircle for some time. It is intermittent and is not browser dependent. When it is behaving slow and unresponsive, it is that way in any browser - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

When this happens, as a cross check, I quickly load a number of other websites, and they all load instantly, so it definitely is the site itself and not my Internet connection or choice of browser.

I might be mistaken, but I was under the impression that John R. hosts the site from his residence serviced by a T-1 or equivalent line, rather than from a server farm with a major backbone connection to the Internet.

Steve

wilsynet · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 09:26 pm »

It looks like they're in a datacenter to me, or if they're not then the latency to a major carrier is not bad at all.

$ mtr audiocircle.com
My traceroute [v0.80]
buffy.silverspringnet.com (0.0.0.0) Mon Oct 24 14:19:59 2011
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. c3750-01.core.netw.rwc.silverspr 0.0% 17 1.1 2.6 1.0 10.7 2.6
2. 74.121.22.2 0.0% 17 1.2 3.0 1.1 19.7 4.5
3. 12.94.77.97 0.0% 17 3.0 24.9 2.2 354.8 85.1
4. cr84.sffca.ip.att.net 0.0% 16 16.2 49.4 4.3 275.8 67.4
5. cr2.sffca.ip.att.net 0.0% 16 9.4 43.2 5.0 188.4 47.8
6. ggr4.cgcil.ip.att.net 0.0% 16 8.6 44.2 2.6 129.3 39.2
7. 192.205.32.206 0.0% 16 5.2 32.0 4.3 112.9 32.8
8. vlan70.csw2.sanjose1.level3.net 0.0% 16 4.9 30.1 4.9 107.0 31.1
9. ae-72-72.ebr2.sanjose1.level3.ne 0.0% 16 4.9 29.4 4.9 88.5 27.7
10. ae-5-5.car1.oakland1.level3.net 0.0% 16 86.6 85.1 6.2 209.7 68.9
11. strongspace.car1.oakland1.level3 0.0% 16 6.1 42.7 6.1 94.3 29.6
12. server2.angophora.com 0.0% 16 5.9 30.8 5.8 90.9 25.3

When things get slow at Audiocircle and the other sites you visit remain fast, it really could be a number of things: the application may be under load or perhaps the network between you and AudioCircle may be congested.

It would be interesting if the OP ran WinMTR and reported back the results.

http://winmtr.net/download-winmtr/

tomytoons · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 10:26 pm »

6:26 EST, East coast running fine now.

skunark · « **Reply #11 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 10:34 pm »

Here is a fun website all webadmins should be using:
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
12 seconds of load time for at T1 speeds is rather slow for an initial page view, 1-2 seconds should be the goal

Looks like creating a sprite for all the common css images and avoid using gifs would greatly reduce server requests, and improve response times. Checkout Yahoo's smushit for image tests. Each image, file request is a separate file io call on the server and improving this would also improve server load.

As for forums, there's probably not much use of server side cache, but images should make use of client side caching, which I'm guessing is enabled as that didn't show up in the reports. Initial views of the site would be slow but would improve with each new page view.

JohnR · « **Reply #12 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 10:37 pm »

Feel free to send me three thousand dollars and I'll buy a nice big server for you guys.

JohnR · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 10:40 pm »

Oh, it will be more like 4.5 to be sure. Thanks! You guys are awesome

skunark · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 10:53 pm »

What about a linode webhost

.. I can help cover several months of a 1.5GB host.

You should have a paypal button so you can have reader's support this site! (probably have to reward them with a unique title).

edit: I can help with the css sprite, if you think that will help server load.

mjosef · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 11:12 pm »

Quote from: JohnR on 24 Oct 2011, 10:37 pm

Feel free to send me three thousand dollars and I'll buy a nice big server for you guys.

Is that Mexican dollars, or ?

Goosepond · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 Oct 2011, 11:29 pm »

I think John just pressed a little harder on the accelerator pedal!

Response is now back to great. But what happens when he hits the sack?

Where the hell is Australia anyhow?

Gene

wilsynet · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 01:28 am »

I'd guess that bottleneck is the database or the disk, not the application code or the web server, or HTML optimizations. Congestion on the Internet may affect things intermittently, but I'd theorize most of the time it's the other things.

skunark · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 01:35 am »

Quote from: wilsynet on 25 Oct 2011, 01:28 am

I'd guess that bottleneck is the database or the disk, not the application code or the web server, or HTML optimizations. Congestion on the Internet may affect things intermittently, but I'd theorize most of the time it's the other things.

Each file access can cost the server valuable IO calls, if "links" are used then there's 2 IO calls per file call. Luckily the SMF is a php site, so html itself is cached (and not even an issue for the website optimization reports). But it also could be a unneeded processes on the web host or poorly executed DDOS attack, which has been bothering several data centers in the last few months.

JohnR · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 Oct 2011, 10:26 am »

Let's not overanalyze it. The server needs more cajones. You get what you pay for etc.

Quote from: Goosepond on 24 Oct 2011, 11:29 pm

Where the hell is Australia anyhow?

Not sure, but it sounds like a good place to put a server

I called Farmer Bruce to see if he has more room in the tractor shed. He said he will put out a second phone line to the shed, and we can use the old dunny if we run out of space there. I think that's what he said. "Re-Dunnie-See" he said. He knows a bit about computers.