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Alexa ranks Neowin as "very slow".

Started by Ice_Blue, Nov 22 2012 17:21 suggestion

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#1 Ice_Blue

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 17:21

91% of sites are faster than Neowin.

Don't I know it. Gotta feed those hamsters, guys.

Or, take Dave and Redmak to a nice dinner. :)

There are a lot of other very interesting stats.

http://www.alexa.com...nfo/neowin.net#

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#2 Uplift

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 17:23

I wonder why? maybe because it is in fact, very slow.

#3 Infexis War

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 17:26

If it's running slow on my PC i use my iPhone lol

#4 Rudy

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 18:55

I'll have to agree with Alexa on this one

#5 Timan

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 19:06

Define slow

I know we had some issues past 2 months but those should have been fixed 2 weeks ago. Plus alexa stats you can take for a grain of salt.

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 19:12

To be fair a lot of that slowness is due to Facebook.

In fact.... I think you can definitely see the culprit here. Neowins code is actually quite quick.

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#7 rippleman

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 19:13

in the past due to certain conditions some of the ads here would make chrome use 100% cpu... it would come and go depending on what ad.

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:03

View Postjamesyfx, on 22 November 2012 - 19:12, said:

To be fair a lot of that slowness is due to Facebook.

In fact.... I think you can definitely see the culprit here. Neowins code is actually quite quick.
facebook again xD

#9 CentralDogma

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:06

Shameful!

#10 Hum

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:06

Neowin is usually fairly quick for me -- many times when it's not, it's the fault of my Net connection.

#11 Wakers

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:07

Yea, the site was always really slow for me before i blocked facebook from every web site I visit. It loads much quicker now, and doesn't seem to get stuck halfway through loading pages any more either.

#12 xendrome

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:08

Yeah facebook add-on stuff has been traditionally slow...

#13 +TruckWEB

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:11

Ahhh, but Facebook is the future! Everything must be linked to Facebook now, if you're not linked, you're bound to die a slow death.... Or be connected and slowly stay alive...

Anyway, YES, Neowin is slow and it's annoying. Other site are also connected on Facebook and are not THAT slow.

#14 HawkMan

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:14

View PostTiman, on 22 November 2012 - 19:06, said:

Define slow

I know we had some issues past 2 months but those should have been fixed 2 weeks ago. Plus alexa stats you can take for a grain of salt.

Neowin never really feels fast. posting especially is very slow. but when I occasionally check the site at 5-6 in the morning (CET) when I get up to drive my GF to work, it's not been just slow lately, it's been almost standing still, clicking a thread it's taking forever before it even begins loading. later in the day, back to normal speed.

#15 Rappy

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 20:16

View Postjamesyfx, on 22 November 2012 - 19:12, said:

To be fair a lot of that slowness is due to Facebook.

the facebook plugin is the last thing to load and usually makes the website stay in a loading state
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