Dodgy websites

[slowmotion]

Something has been troubling me. Whenever I go to a newspaper website, eg. The Independent, to have a look at the news, they take an absolute age to load. Why is this? Is it because the page is constantly being updated?

Any ideas? Thank-you.

 

[MattHB]

No it's probably because of all the tracking cookies it's loading up your computer with

 

[thom]

Something has been troubling me. Whenever I go to a newspaper website, eg. The Independent, to have a look at the news, they take an absolute age to load. Why is this? Is it because the page is constantly being updated?

Any ideas? Thank-you.

Have you tried different browsers ? I found for example that the flickr site is much slower on my IExplorer version than on Chrome.
Is it a cost for the first loading but not subsequent ones ?
Have you tried changing your user name to fastmotion ?

 

[MattHB]

Something has been troubling me. Whenever I go to a newspaper website, eg. The Independent, to have a look at the news, they take an absolute age to load. Why is this? Is it because the page is constantly being updated?

Any ideas? Thank-you.

It could of course also be that the server is under high load at the times you're looking at their site.

 

[slowmotion]

I just went back to The Independent site and it's still agonisingly slow. It's the same with The Guardian and other papers, and it doesn't seem to make much difference with the time of day.

 

[MattHB]

I just went back to The Independent site and it's still agonisingly slow. It's the same with The Guadian and other papers, and it doesn't seem to make much difference with the time of day.

It's most likely that its just server overload, or one of their tracking cookies is lagging page load like doubleclick.

Edit. Just loaded the independent site in just under 3 seconds here.

 

[TVC]

It loaded straight up for me too.

Try temporarily switching off your security and then reload it

 

[slowmotion]

I'm thrashing about trying to turn off Norton 360.....without much success.....

 

[MattHB]

I'm thrashing about trying to turn off Norton 360.....without much success.....

There's your problem... Hateful load of rubbish it is. It's like throwing a tin of epoxy resin into a nicely oiled machine

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

Oh sorry my mistake, not the dodgy websites I thought they were!

 

[slowmotion]

I did feel a bit shifty looking at The Independent. Ghastly paper.

 

[MrJamie]

Loaded relatively quickly for me, the ads took a couple of extra seconds and were bike adverts, so more than likely tracked to me. If using windows you could try using Start Menu>Accessories>System Tools>Internet Explorer (No Addons) incase some browser bolt-ons are slowing things down in general.

Your computer will function better with a virus than Norton installed and theyre about equally resistant to removal :P

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

There's your problem... Hateful load of rubbish it is. It's like throwing a tin of epoxy resin into a nicely oiled machine

ditto - problem resolved - prevents viruses by grinding your machine to a halt and stopping you browsing the internet in the first place!

 

[slowmotion]

I have Norton, and the Guardian loads instantly for me. Do you do PC housekeeping Martin?

Not much, I'm afraid. I wait until my PC has nearly ground to a halt, back up my files, and reinstall Windows. Not the most elegant solution, but it seems to work, sort of.

 

[slowmotion]

OK,OK, I'll run the defragger when I leave for home. Will that do?