Is This Site Slow?
| Tue Feb. 17, 2009 3:55 PM PST
As you know, we relaunched our site a few days ago—and like all such endeavors, this one comes with the occasional hiccup. We're trying to closely monitor site performance--how fast pages load, whether anything looks broken, etc. And we need your help. If you see any problems, could you let us know in the comments? The more specific the better; if you can include the browser and operating system you're on, that would be great. As a nonprofit shop, we can't afford a slew of dedicated coders, so your help is greatly appreciated and keeps our resources flowing to the journalism.
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Helpful model for weblinks
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue Feb. 17, 2009 7:04 PM PST.
See www.fivethirtyeight.com website for excellent way to allow expansion of long blogposts that currently require loading a 2nd webpage. Instead of loading a new webpage when clicking on a "[more]" hyperlink, the article expands (downward) and leaves the rest of the webpage effectively as it was, merely moving it downward to follow the expanded blog. There is very likely also a way to count these hits since it does involve clicking on some part of your website. I don't know how to do it, but it saves real time and server time.
Slow, quirky, harder to
Submitted by Anonymous Bosh (not verified) on Wed Feb. 18, 2009 11:55 AM PST.
Slow, quirky, harder to navigate and less interesting than the old one.
Any other questions?
When I load a blog page I
Submitted by richard (not verified) on Wed Feb. 18, 2009 2:04 PM PST.
When I load a blog page I have to wait for each reddit and diggit command to load. Not sure exactly why or how to fix it. Good luck.
Netflix pop up slows down page, columns out of whack IE6
Submitted by Kesha (not verified) on Wed Feb. 18, 2009 2:51 PM PST.
I just clicked through directly to this page from my MoJo iGoogle widget and it was quite slow to load. I too saw reddit and diggit holding up the load. Finally a Netflix popup ad came up and then the page immediately loaded, albeit kind of whacked out. Pop-up ads are generally not a good thing from the users' perspective. I work for a dot.com and we eschew them.
As for the columns, it looks to me like there are supposed to be three columns, the left for the skyscraper and archive links. There is no left column showing, the skyscraper and archive links are at the bottom of hte right column, under the blogs, top stories and reaction block. The center column is all empty at the top of the page. The story and comments are pushed down to the bottom of the center column. I'm using IE version 6.0.
Slow, quirky, harder to
Submitted by Glisk (not verified) on Fri Sep. 18, 2009 9:51 AM PDT.
Slow, quirky, harder to navigate and less interesting than the old one.
Thanks
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