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Improving Mindat.orgmindat page load SLOW

21st May 2015 16:34 UTCTom Mortimer Expert

For the past week or more, pages of "new photos yesterday" have been loading to my desktop PC VERY slowly. For example, four successive pages today took 36, 37, 50, and 26 seconds respectively. I reside in northeast USA and use Comcast.net as my ISP.

Are others experiencing similar slow loads? Is it possible to determine if the problem is with my ISP or the mindat server?

Tom Mortimer

21st May 2015 16:40 UTCBrent Thorne Expert

I also have noticed a significant slowdown in viewing new photos and photos on my homepage. I thought that this was because I changed my internet service, but now I think that it maybe a problem with mindat.


Brent

21st May 2015 16:47 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

We did have some people trying to download the site. Also Jolyon was cleaning up some areas in the UK.

21st May 2015 19:28 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Today the message board is fast but Species, Localities, add/edit are slow

21st May 2015 20:15 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

I'm investigating now. I suspect a database issue.

21st May 2015 21:35 UTCRui Nunes 🌟 Expert

Extremely slow for chrome and firefox during the day. Now is much better than it was this afternoon.

21st May 2015 23:06 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I have had no issues either now nor over the past week concerning slow page load times..... :-S

22nd May 2015 00:47 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

I have found slow loading as well.

22nd May 2015 01:12 UTCJohn Collins

Mindat does have a vast data base and some of the searches I undertake would require the program to hunt all over the place to assimilate the appropriate result. I don't find the opening of the home page slow.


John

22nd May 2015 02:06 UTCJohn R. Montgomery 🌟 Expert

I too have found Mindat slow over the last week or so, especially after I've clicked on one or more items... starts fast and then slows.


John

22nd May 2015 02:21 UTCJim Gawura

Look at , "yesterdays photos", every day. At certain times, all over the map, it takes forever to load a new page, click on an individual specimen, or go back a page. I'm talking anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds.

22nd May 2015 14:07 UTCJohn R. Montgomery 🌟 Expert

Also, I haven't been able to get on to MEMBERS' PHOTO GALLERIES for about a week ...keep getting this page



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Error 524 Ray ID: 1ea8ab2846dd0f9f • 2015-05-22 12:55:55 UTC


A timeout occurred

22nd May 2015 15:23 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager

That particular program has a very long running query that tends to lead to timeouts.

22nd May 2015 15:29 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

Locality and species pages are painfully slow to load for me too now. :-(

22nd May 2015 15:44 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.

I just had a "timeout" message while trying to access a "detailed" display page for a locality file that has only about 8 species entries. That kind of page should load instantly. The error page in Chrome showed that the problem was the database server.

22nd May 2015 16:25 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Ok... some changes made and it's working much faster for me...


Let me know how it works for you all

22nd May 2015 16:38 UTCJosé Zendrera 🌟 Manager

After some days on a oxcart now this seems a Ferrari. Good job!

22nd May 2015 16:43 UTCRui Nunes 🌟 Expert

Yes, much better now :)-D

22nd May 2015 18:09 UTCJohn R. Montgomery 🌟 Expert

Yes, I just got on to the Members' Photo Galleries today...thanks David, or whomever

John

23rd May 2015 14:56 UTCTom Mortimer Expert

Formally slow pages now load in an eye-blink. Thanks, Jolyon, for fixing this.

Tom

23rd May 2015 22:48 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

Yes, I'm quite happy with performance now!

24th May 2015 00:41 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Damn! It was a great excuse to do nothing. Oh Well back to the mines!

24th May 2015 01:23 UTCBill Dameron 🌟 Expert

At 1:15 Greenwich time May 24 (still later afternoon here!) cannot get on Member's Photo Galleries. Yesterday's photos OK but slow. I did delete my Mindat cookie first so started clean

Bill

24th May 2015 08:17 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder

The Member's Photo Galleries page is too slow in its current form because we have too many members now.


Jolyon
 
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