Blog Crashes when there are too many comments
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Once I get over 100 comments the blog starts crashing my browser when I try to load it. Once it hits over 300 comments it’s absolutely impossible to load. It’s better when using Firefox, but stil, no one is going to wait 3 minutes for a blog to load. I broke my comments into 50 comments per page and even this didn’t really help. Also when there are a lot of people trying to access the blog at the same time the page just won’t load at all.During my busiest hours 7pm-10pm sometimes you just can’t get on.
This is really becoming a big problem and I’m getting daily emails and tweets from people complaining that they can’t access the blog, and I don’t know what to do about it.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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So go to settings > discussion and paginate your comment with no more than say, 50 per page. Raincoaster has a post with over 2000 comments and she gets by that way.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
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No, I’m too stubborn to paginate them. They’re all just on one page, and it takes FOREVER to load.
Nearly 30 seconds, by my count. I do not recommend this; I only do it because they look so fabulous all laid out like that.
HOWEVER, having looked at your blog, you have a BIG problem you can fix easily.
Your main page took almost half as long to load as that post of mine with 2100 comments. You have a problem. The reason is that you have far too many posts on the front page. You must reduce this, as I’m sure it’s costing you readers. Staff have suggested that an optimal number of posts on the front page is between five and ten. Over that it actually decreases readership.
This is not related to the number of comments you have, but it’s good advice.
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Let me make another suggestion.
With the amount of media files your blog is serving up, you need to reduce the number of posts per page of your blog. Anything over 10 posts per page, and that’s really pushing it for you, is just way too much stuff to wait around to load. I’d suggest dropping to a max of 5-6 posts per page.
As far as comments, as tsp mentioned reduce them, but to even less than 50 per page. You’ve enabled ratings on your comments and when I loaded your “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills – Reunion Part 1” post with 545 comments, the lag was being caused by “waiting for Polldaddy” (but it still took less than a minute for the page to load).
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Thanks for the help guys!
I reduced the number of posts on the main page and I’m going to take off the comment ratings.
I broke the comments into pages for the first time yesterday. I like it much better when they’re all on one page. But I was getting so many complaints about the loading time, so I was trying to fix that.Rain how does your page with 2000 comments load faster than mine with 300?
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@rchw-On your blog people really seem to love the comment ratings so I’d think twice about removing them. Nothing worse than unhappy readers! Just reduce the number of comments per page (20-30). Fewer means faster load time, hopefully.
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On my connection, the latest post with 300+ comments loads in just under ten seconds, so your blog loads faster than mine.
I agree with jennifer, keep the features your readers love.
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Personally, I think breaking the comments is worse than losing the ratings.
But I get a lot of complaints about slow loading and browsers crashing, so I don’t think I have a choice. :( -
@realcityhousewife
Last year page loading time became a factor in page ranking. This post in my blog covers the ways and means we have of reducing page loading time including links to several online page loading time checkers and other tools. I hope it helps you.
Blogging: Strategies for reducing page loading time
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/13/blogging-strategies-for-reducing-page-loading-time/
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