Regarding the loading, that is actually not always true. The “widgets” load when that block of javascript is reached. The Spoke link at the bottom of the page is the equivalent of plain text, so that is not the issue either.
First, "The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. " This is caused when there are many requests to the system and they requests are not being processed by the server fast enough. I’ve increased the number of processes handling requests so that should get better. But there will be side affects that cause slowness in a different way. But hopefully it will be faster on the whole.
Other server side slowness could be:
- Not enough RAM, which will result in swapping to disk more often
- Database problems: too big, not optimized, and/or a bad database schema
After the request finally comes back, if you see the “Hello username” menu bar and it is hanging there for a while … then it could be Google Ads or feed informer. I will remove feed informer because it appears to be broken. Google Ads very rarely slows down a page because if it does Google looses money.
@Imperious:
The thing is these weird things are loading up always before it ‘allows’ the main site to load up. They should be loaded in the back, so that if you post and move around fast enough they wont have a chance to complete loading up. Of course they are not programmed this way. They always become the FIRST thing that gets completed BEFORE whatever you WANT to be seen.
Also this a bunch of rubbish:
Critical Gamers’ October 2008 Board Gaming Roundup
Nov 02, 2008 16:37
Sunday Shoot Out
Oct 29, 2008 18:42
November Central Powers Game Day
Oct 29, 2008 13:45
Axis & Allies on a Saturday
Oct 29, 2008 06:56
Regular Axis & Allies Revised or 4th edition
Oct 27, 2008 05:41
The Sunnyvale Axis and Allies brigade November Meetup
Oct 24, 2008 06:58
none of these links ever load up anything so why have it?
Perhaps if i get a tally of what all these things actually generate for the site, we can find something else that makes more money and does not cause these problems. Or i can just write a check each year and pay to remove all of them, just to keep the sanity of all because its a real problem. I will PM the boss.