Site is unusually kind of slowish...

[Broni]

I thought it was something temporary when I've noticed it couple of days ago.
This board has been always the fastest board from all I visit.
Not so since couple of days ago.
Pages don't load as fast and sometime I have to click twice on "Post reply" button to get my reply posted.

 

[mailpup]

There was a period two or three days ago when response was very slow but for me it's been fine for awhile now.

 

[Julio Franco]

To be honest, I was feeling the site was sluggish the other day as well, but with my ISP acting up all the time I wasn't sure if it was all in my head. I test all the time with webpagetest.org and it appeared ok. Please do report back if you feel something is off.

 

[Broni]

Seems to be OK now.

 

[Broni]

Very slow today since I came home about an hour ago.

 

[Julio Franco]

We'll be resetting a few things tonight (off peak hours) to see if that's crippling the site's performance.

 

[Broni]

Thanks Julio

 

[Julio Franco]

Broni, do you feel a difference starting now?

 

[Broni]

Feels better

 

[Broni]

Definitely better.
Thanks

 

[Julio Franco]

I'm moving this discussion to an open forum so other members can provide feedback and let us know if they're observing issues with the site's performance.

Thanks!

 

[cliffordcooley]

I'm experiencing so many different issues at the moment, I couldn't say one way or the other. But in general the site seems fine.

 

[DelJo63]

Hmm always test using

pathping www.techspot.com​

which will discover anomalies in the path to TS vs TS response time itself

 

[cliffordcooley]

Hmm always test using

pathping www.techspot.com​

which will discover anomalies in the path to TS vs TS response time itself

Here is mine for the moment:

Tracing route to www.techspot.com [50.22.252.218]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  0  Clif~[snip]
  1  192.168.snip
  2	*		*		*
Computing statistics for 25 seconds...
			Source to Here  This Node/Link
Hop  RTT	Lost/Sent = Pct  Lost/Sent = Pct  Address
  0						Clif~[snip]
				0/ 100 =  0%  |
  1	2ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  192.168.snip
 
Trace complete.

 

[DelJo63]

OUCH! the last line should ALWAYS be the IP address of Techspot.com [50.22.252.218]

If it is not, then the last line shown can not access the next node in the path --> leads to timeout and retry == > BAD performance.

The other nightmare, is a DNS timeout attempting to translate techspot.com into its IP address(50.22.252.218)

 

[DelJo63]

The attached is my results for PATHPING WWW.TECHSPOT.COM

Notice: my path to TS will not be the same as yours (ie the sequence of nodes/ip addresses WILL be different)

Two things you want to see

1. last line IS techspot.com
2. losses are zero or minimal

a line that reads like

n 16ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0%​

is perfect while a line like

m --- 100/ 100 =100% 100/ 100 =100%​

is a disaster: 100% of the data is lost (or at least PING is not responding on that node)

Tracing route to www.techspot.com [50.22.252.218]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  0  jeffPC7 [192.168.0.5]
  1  localRouter [192.168.0.1]
  2  cpe-108-184-144-1.socal.res.rr.com [108.184.144.1]
  3  tge7-8.wlvgcabn02h.socal.rr.com [76.166.19.221]
  4  tge0-8-0-10.vnnycajz02r.socal.rr.com [72.129.13.108]
  5  agg29.tustcaft01r.socal.rr.com [72.129.13.2]
  6  ae-6-0.cr0.lax30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.214]
  7  ae-1-0.pr0.lax00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.129]
  8  te1-6.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com [66.109.11.42]
  9  ae7.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.166]
10  ae19.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com [173.192.18.140]
11  ae7.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com [173.192.18.209]
12  ae1.bbr01.tl01.atl01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.135]
13  ae0.bbr01.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com [173.192.18.152]
14  ae0.dar02.sr01.wdc01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.203]
15  po2.fcr02.sr01.wdc01.networklayer.com [208.43.118.151]
16  techspot04.techspot.com [50.22.252.218]
 
Computing statistics for 400 seconds...
			Source to Here  This Node/Link
Hop  RTT	Lost/Sent = Pct  Lost/Sent = Pct  Address
  0										  jeffPC7 [192.168.0.5]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  1	0ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  localRouter [192.168.0.1]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  2	9ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  cpe-108-184-144-1.socal.res.rr.com [108.184.144.1]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  3	9ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  tge7-8.wlvgcabn02h.socal.rr.com [76.166.19.221]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  4  12ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  tge0-8-0-10.vnnycajz02r.socal.rr.com [72.129.13.108]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  5  14ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  agg29.tustcaft01r.socal.rr.com [72.129.13.2]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  6  14ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  ae-6-0.cr0.lax30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.214]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  7  17ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  ae-1-0.pr0.lax00.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.129]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  8  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  te1-6.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com [66.109.11.42]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
  9  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  ae7.bbr01.cs01.lax01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.166]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
10  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  ae19.bbr01.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com [173.192.18.140]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
11  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  ae7.bbr02.eq01.dal03.networklayer.com [173.192.18.209]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
12  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  ae1.bbr01.tl01.atl01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.135]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
13  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  ae0.bbr01.eq01.wdc02.networklayer.com [173.192.18.152]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
14  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  ae0.dar02.sr01.wdc01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.203]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
15  ---	100/ 100 =100%  100/ 100 =100%  po2.fcr02.sr01.wdc01.networklayer.com [208.43.118.151]
								0/ 100 =  0%  |
16  76ms	0/ 100 =  0%	0/ 100 =  0%  techspot04.techspot.com [50.22.252.218]
 
Trace complete.

the data from *.networklayer.com demonstrates PING is not responding on that node

[note to admin:] Would have attached file ppTechspotResults.TXT but kept getting bad extension name error :sigh: [/note]

 

[cliffordcooley]

OUCH! the last line should ALWAYS be the IP address of Techspot.com [50.22.252.218]

I was wondering about that but didn't want to question it.

1. What are some common reasons for this phenomenon?
2. Could the issue causing this be on both ends?

 

[DelJo63]

Two concerns

1. your access to your ISP
2. Techspot.com's access to its ISP

Line 0 & 1 in post 16 show up this way as I have them added to my etc\hosts file so line 2 is my ISP - - it better be like

2 9ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% cpe-108-184-144-1.socal.res.rr.com [108.184.144.1]​

or I'll never get any good response times!

Line 16 for TS better be good too,

16 76ms 0/ 100 = 0% 0/ 100 = 0% techspot04.techspot.com [50.22.252.218]​

or the poor webserver will never look good to ANYONE!

Beyond that - - it is just hopeless - - errors in nodes 3->15 are on the Internet Backbone and we (you, me, Julio, ...) can't do anything about it.

Your post shows only 2 nodes and I assume you elected to truncate/edit the results for some reason.

 

[St1ckM4n]

Cliff, you snipped your generic 192.168. address?


Mine has 267ms ping on techspot.com, which is okay. Like jobear, I have 100% loss on *.networklayer.com, and *.softlayer.com.