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Community page loading slowness

Posted 10 years ago

Recently (or perhaps longer) the time it takes to initially load the Wolfram Community page at its base URL has become very slow. I time it as around 25 seconds on each of the three browsers on my OSX system from when I first enter the link to when the page turns from blank to containing the dashboard. This used to be the case in the early days of the community and then it sped up to the quick response that one sees in the Mathematica Stackexchange page. But recently it has become exceedingly slow. Is there a known reason for this? Bring back the old speedy page loading! ;-)

POSTED BY: David Reiss
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We are currently in the process of refactoring the architecture of Community to speed up the site, which is a large task. Please note comparisons to Stack Exchange are as good as to any other forum or website, because the Community software is different from the Stack Exchange's one. We just implemented a small speed up update, - perhaps you will notice. One thing to be aware is that single post pages are loading quite fast:

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while dashboard is slower and has delays of post-appearance. I hope members will bear with us, because we are developing many custom features for this forum specifically, and hope to have a great place for all of you in the future.

POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov
Posted 10 years ago

PageSpeed Insights gives me an index of 50/100 for the community site vs 73/100 for mathematica.stackexchange.com

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=community.wolfram.com&tab=desktop

POSTED BY: Diego Zviovich

Hi Diego,

You probably mixed something up. For me it's 49/100 for community and 85/100 for mathematica.stackexchange on "Desktop". For "Mobile" it is 39/100 community compared to 73/100 stackexchange.

POSTED BY: Patrick Scheibe
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POSTED BY: Patrick Scheibe
Posted 10 years ago

Patrick, This is similar to my experience in NW USA.

Best regards, David

POSTED BY: David Keith

Significan slowness still persists. This site generally is the slowest loading website that I use. For example, http://mathematica.stackexchange.com loads instantly.

POSTED BY: David Reiss
POSTED BY: EDITORIAL BOARD

In addition to this, I also still have this problem where posts show up long after they were actually posted. Sometimes I can see my own answers in a thread, but not on the dashboard. And just now I reloaded this thread and found Nasser's reply (which I didn't see before) - timestamped as "3 hours ago". I have no idea if these problems are related at all, just thought I'd mention it. (Firefox, Win10)

POSTED BY: Bianca Eifert
POSTED BY: Nasser M. Abbasi

We have made some changes. @Nasser M. Abbasi could you run those measurements again to benchmark?

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POSTED BY: David Reiss
POSTED BY: Nasser M. Abbasi
Posted 10 years ago

I experience the same time on Firefox on win 7.

POSTED BY: David Keith
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