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Love Calm Quiet · Jan 19, 2005, 09:23 AM

Is anyone else amazed at how slow weather.com or amazon.com (pun intended) pages can be to load?

Often: Twenty+ seconds for local Weather.com details page via cable modem. Meanwhile, I can load several of their HUGE jpgs of weather maps into a custom page of my own in FOUR secs. I *suspect* its all their blessed ads that slows them. "Loading 13 of 14 items..." [ even at 4:00am]. FWIW, Accuweather is about as bad on many of its pages (but fuglier).

As for amazon, it's snappy this morn. At *some* times of day I can sit and watch the gifs for their navigation bar sssssllllllooowwwwly pop in the gifs in their menu bar of Amazon "stores". [Is this a design-strategy issue, or just a function of their enormous site volume?]

Anybody care to talk trash about *their* favorite slug? ...explain why they should perform so poorly?

Mafia · Jan 19, 2005, 10:25 AM

espn.com is extremely slow. i think it may be all the scripts they run constantly.

historylme · Jan 19, 2005, 06:17 PM

compusa is horrendous, only check it cause the boss wanted to.

Love Calm Quiet · Jan 19, 2005, 09:46 PM

Mafia... yes, scripts for advertisers, I suppose? I wish advertisers knew how much that hyperactivity drives a bunch of us to surf away as fast as possible.

Kilbey · Jan 19, 2005, 10:12 PM

Macmall.com is overdone and slow to load for me.

JHromadka · Jan 19, 2005, 10:32 PM

ign.com used to be the devil for Safari users.

Gankdawg · Jan 20, 2005, 01:37 AM

Another vote for weather.com. Slow on 1.5 DSL at home using Safari and slow at work using IE6 with 2 T-1's.

Cody Dawg · Jan 20, 2005, 01:57 AM

CompUSA is horrible.

Another one is Circuit City.

macsfromnowon · 02:44 PM

www.accuweather.com

:

Is this how they expect to get me to sign up for PAID "premium, no-ads" edition.

ManOfSteal · Jan 23, 2005, 02:30 PM

Originally posted by Mafia:
espn.com is extremely slow. i think it may be all the scripts they run constantly.

Amen, I have left them for Yahoo! sports instead.

Buckaroo · Jan 23, 2005, 02:45 PM

sony.com use to be the worst, but I think they have fixed there problems within the past year.

I just checked and yes sony.com is super fast compared to the slowness they were a year ago. I could take many minutes to get a single page through broadband.

spiky_dog · Jan 23, 2005, 03:04 PM

hp's printer driver page used to be horribly slow. working ok today, probably because a million it-monkies aren't hitting it up at once.

TeknoTurd · Jan 23, 2005, 08:43 PM

Cingular.com especially in the account area. I concurr about weather.com is ****ing horendous! For some reason if you don't go through the home page, like if you go to http://www.weather.com/weather/local/94105 (type in your zipcode for the last 5 digits) it seems to go a lot faster.

Ghoser777 · Jan 23, 2005, 08:58 PM

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
Amen, I have left them for Yahoo! sports instead.

Yeah me too - all I want to know is how much Illinois is winning by, thank you.

spiky_dog · Jan 23, 2005, 09:36 PM

Originally posted by TeknoTurd:
Cingular.com especially in the account area.

ohhh i forgot about this one. and half the time it redirects you back to the login page when you select links...

ManOfSteal · Jan 23, 2005, 11:18 PM

Originally posted by Ghoser777:
Yeah me too - all I want to know is how much Illinois is winning by, thank you.

Oh, stay away from the site come March in that case!

TailsToo · Jan 23, 2005, 11:28 PM

Yeah, what happend to weather.com? They used to be quick, but now they are horrible!

osxpinot · Jan 23, 2005, 11:34 PM

I hate eBay and Safari. It is so slow.

macsfromnowon · Jan 25, 2005, 09:11 PM

What has Chicago Sun Times done to Roger Ebert's site?
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com

They "renovated" it. Takes FOREVER.

macsfromnowon · Jan 28, 2005, 12:44 AM

arggh!!!!!!
Gotta add www.versiontracker.com to the hall of shame.
Sometimes it's ok, but when it is bad...

ManOfSteal · Jan 28, 2005, 12:47 AM

Originally posted by TailsToo:
Yeah, what happend to weather.com? They used to be quick, but now they are horrible!

Hence the reason I use Meteorologist v1.4.2 instead!

Love Calm Quiet · Jan 28, 2005, 01:24 AM

Thanks, MOS,
I like the sound of that... but not of the system-hogging/stalling described in recent revs. You have any comment on the experiences cited?

york28 · Jan 31, 2005, 03:28 AM

Adblock, my friends. Adblock.

brutal · Jan 31, 2005, 06:25 AM

Gamespot.com is also amazingly slow and bulky.

macsfromnowon · Jan 31, 2005, 07:54 AM

York28:

Anything called "adblock" sounds good to explore. Following their link to adblock.mozdev.org is very off-putting to the non-geek. First... what is up with the way the page displays (at least in Safari). Took me a while even to *notice* that there was descriptive text jammed into a little column on the right (in pale grey type).

Scrolling down... OK where's the FAQs? Where's the statement as to *for which browsers* might this be applied? The page seems geared to developers. Where's the link to instructions, system/browser requirements, etc. written for mere users.

:Sigh: Anyone here want to offer link to instructions & summary for mortals?

Love Calm Quiet · Jan 31, 2005, 08:46 AM

Man of Steal:

I'm trying Meteorologist v 1.4.. Sounds nice. but... Displays nothing (not even for Cupertino, its default, pre-installed city).

Can't install *any* other city (says not found), not by zip nor by URL. There's not much on their forums...

OS 10.3.5

andreas_g4 · Jan 31, 2005, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by osxpinot:
I hate eBay and Safari. It is so slow.

Jep. Not only in Safari.

MARINEOSX · Jan 31, 2005, 09:22 AM

Internet Explorer! I know it isn't a website but it is so f****** slow!

turtle777 · Jan 31, 2005, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by MARINEOSX:
Internet Explorer! I know it isn't a website but it is so f****** slow!

-t

Agasthya · Jan 31, 2005, 10:54 AM

Originally posted by Ghoser777:
Yeah me too - all I want to know is how much Illinois is winning by, thank you.

Agasthya · Jan 31, 2005, 10:55 AM

Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
Man of Steal:

I'm trying Meteorologist v 1.4.. Sounds nice. but... Displays nothing (not even for Cupertino, its default, pre-installed city).

Can't install *any* other city (says not found), not by zip nor by URL. There's not much on their forums...

OS 10.3.5

Meteo JUST broke this morning. It was displaying the extended forecast and whatnot for me before today but I'm only getting the current weather right now.

SystemPreffs · Mar 23, 2005, 09:33 AM

OMG! You would think that "MONEY" would afford some decent servers. Have you ever browsed CNN and clicked on a link that turned out to be money.cnn ? They must think business customers have nothing to do but WAIT...