Gator Country

petro · 10-13-2011, 09:30 PM

Is it me? Or my high speed cable. Or my T-3 at work? Or my 3G? Or is GC becoming the slowest server on the interweb? Seems like it slows down by the day. Painful.

I'd appreciate knowing if the issue is isolated to just me.

orangeandblue2777 · 10-13-2011, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by petro

Is it me? Or my high speed cable. Or my T-3 at work? Or my 3G? Or is GC becoming the slowest server on the interweb? Seems like it slows down by the day. Painful.

I'd appreciate knowing if the issue is isolated to just me.

Works great on 4g......

villegator95 · 10-13-2011, 09:39 PM

It was super slow for me for about 2 weeks but then picked back up again. I don't really know why it happened... it was odd, man.

iam4uf · 10-13-2011, 09:40 PM

I've also noticed poor response times from the pages here on two different cable Internet providers.

villegator95 · 10-13-2011, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by orangeandblue2777

Works great on 4g......

Jealous

I get it in January, can't wait!

petro · 10-13-2011, 09:46 PM

Because 4g is faster than t-3? It comes and goes. But seems to be mostly gone the past few weeks.

g8rvet · 10-13-2011, 09:49 PM

Always been slow for me on DSL, T1 and 3G. Dunno why.

No1GatorFreak · 10-13-2011, 09:51 PM

My phone works great! Ha

gatormoe1 · 10-13-2011, 09:52 PM

Some days are better than others but then again I am on DSL so...

petro · 10-13-2011, 09:54 PM

Type in tigerdroppings.com or volnation or dawgs.com etc etc and compare.

Embarrassing.

TimCasey67 · 10-13-2011, 09:58 PM

It's an issue we are aware of and it will be addressed when we redesign the entire site platform. Most of that goes over my head, but I think it has something to do with the hundreds of thousands of pages on the site since GC has been around the longest.

petro · 10-13-2011, 10:04 PM

So.........it's not me????

Like Bama realizing they need electricity to operate stadium lights? Jk

superman2318 · 10-13-2011, 10:25 PM

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Works great on 4g......

Works great on my 4G as well, Droid 2.3 Hope it works out for you soon.

petro · 10-13-2011, 10:43 PM

Wow. A lot of loyal readers might have appreciated the info. Wow.

orangeblueorangeblue · 10-14-2011, 07:54 AM

Nah, it's the ads and other assorted 3rd party scripts.

I did a quick analysis of page speed a couple of months back. There were two primary issues:

1. The ads and the loads of other external stuff (tynt, et al) loaded onto the page. This is largely alleviated by installing adblock right now.

2. An issue with their DNS host that had a very short TTL (~ 2 seconds). They've fixed this.

So in short, install adblock, add these into your adblock rules:

http://google-analytics.com/*
http://tcr.tynt.com/*

And loads as fast / faster than Tigerdroppings, etc.

rburnett · 10-20-2011, 05:31 PM

Agreed, it's these $hitty ads.. thinking about going back to Insider just to get rid of them.. they suck.. probably shouldn't post that since it's an incentive to make more $ if they leave them up.

gatormoe1 · 10-20-2011, 08:57 PM

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Agreed, it's these $hitty ads.. thinking about going back to Insider just to get rid of them.. they suck.. probably shouldn't post that since it's an incentive to make more $ if they leave them up.

ad block is your friend.

**Jupgator** · 10-20-2011, 10:28 PM

Are you suggesting Adblock Plus or Pro, which are premium, or Simple Adblock, which I think is some kind of free close copy of Adblock?

rburnett · 10-21-2011, 09:50 AM

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ad block is your friend.

work pc, can't install it :-/

gatormoe1 · 10-21-2011, 10:00 AM

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work pc, can't install it :-/

Well there are ways, some easier than others. You can download portableapps and add the Google chrome portable app on it and install ad block at home. Then when at work you just pop in your USB, open up Chrome portable and bam! No ads.