Thanks Cletus. I reduced the number of articles from 10 to 6 on the home page, but that page isn’t really important. Very few people simply stay on the home page, as they click on the post title to get to the comments.
Then, there is only the one post on the page, and now only 40 comments instead of 100. As for the Wibiya toolbar, I can’t find any setting to make it load in the “minimized” position (for faster loading), but I will look into it further.
I like the bar and play one of the games listed on it, but it others don’t use it the I may remove it. I’ll have too do another poll on it I guess. But first I look for other ways to speed it up. I did reduce the file size of the header and Anna’s banner just now, so maybe that will help a little too.
I also think your site could be sped up if you cut down the size of the article previews — too many posts on one page with lots of embedded video. If you put a text only preview like zero hedge and then loaded the videos on the main page for the post when users click on the article, it would speed things up a lot.
It’s the javascript & ajax that disquis uses. I’m a programmer and have to deal with this stuff…if you want to make it load really fast, you have to disable (or un-enable) javascript in your browser, which may or may not have implications for other sites you visit. If you disable, it will load very fast, but you will only be able to see comments. If you want to make comments, you’d have to re-enable javascript and reload. Sorry, but that’s the way that disquis is coded.
Red,
If there is some way to decrease the number of visible comments to the last 25 or 50, that would speed it up, but the limitation is disquis. It uses javascript, which is, like the name implies, a scripting language, so the browser is rendering the code in real time because it is not compiled. Might want to ask the disquis people if they have any suggestions.
I’ll be working on speeding the loading time up for the site a little at a time. I’m made some quick changes already. Please answer the polling question at the bottom of this post (above the comments) to help me out.
so whats very bad about it ? what will happen next according to your swan prediction ? is the swan going for some food and his neck will head downwards ?
Z… I’m going to work on all that over the weekend. I need to rearrange things, as you are right… it’s too slow loading. I’ve just been busy with a lot of other things, but it’s on my list of things too fix. Hang tight.
Thanks Cletus. I reduced the number of articles from 10 to 6 on the home page, but that page isn’t really important. Very few people simply stay on the home page, as they click on the post title to get to the comments.
Then, there is only the one post on the page, and now only 40 comments instead of 100. As for the Wibiya toolbar, I can’t find any setting to make it load in the “minimized” position (for faster loading), but I will look into it further.
I like the bar and play one of the games listed on it, but it others don’t use it the I may remove it. I’ll have too do another poll on it I guess. But first I look for other ways to speed it up. I did reduce the file size of the header and Anna’s banner just now, so maybe that will help a little too.
I also think your site could be sped up if you cut down the size of the article previews — too many posts on one page with lots of embedded video. If you put a text only preview like zero hedge and then loaded the videos on the main page for the post when users click on the article, it would speed things up a lot.
I don’t notice a huge difference. I think ever since you added that bar at the bottom it’s noticeably slower.
I’m sure it will…might want to get second opinions from others because I just got some new machines.
I just reduced the comments to 40 per page… maybe that will help?
Please see my reply to Z…
Z,
It’s the javascript & ajax that disquis uses. I’m a programmer and have to deal with this stuff…if you want to make it load really fast, you have to disable (or un-enable) javascript in your browser, which may or may not have implications for other sites you visit. If you disable, it will load very fast, but you will only be able to see comments. If you want to make comments, you’d have to re-enable javascript and reload. Sorry, but that’s the way that disquis is coded.
Red,
If there is some way to decrease the number of visible comments to the last 25 or 50, that would speed it up, but the limitation is disquis. It uses javascript, which is, like the name implies, a scripting language, so the browser is rendering the code in real time because it is not compiled. Might want to ask the disquis people if they have any suggestions.
I’ll be working on speeding the loading time up for the site a little at a time. I’m made some quick changes already. Please answer the polling question at the bottom of this post (above the comments) to help me out.
Thanks, Red
so whats very bad about it ? what will happen next according to your swan prediction ? is the swan going for some food and his neck will head downwards ?
Z… I’m going to work on all that over the weekend. I need to rearrange things, as you are right… it’s too slow loading. I’ve just been busy with a lot of other things, but it’s on my list of things too fix. Hang tight.