Browsing & page-loading speed issues

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    yaseenrocca · Member ·

    I really, really like WordPress.com’s approach to blogging: the usability, web standards, the simplicty and elegance of lots of templates. The things that make it stand out from Blogger, like categories and the ability to make some posts private but the rest of the blog public. It’s all awesome and lovely.

    I am aware that I can use WordPress.org’s tool plus a paid hosting service. However, I want to use a free blog service because I want to be able to write and post things then leave them without worrying about paying a host annually or monthly. I basically want the peace of mind of knowing that if 10 years from today something happens I stop paying for a hosting service, my blog won’t simply be deleted and disappear, because it’s hosted for free anyway.

    And this is why I choose to work with WordPress.com’s service. However, I’ve had some serious issues with browsing the website for templates, editing my posts, and opening the dashboard or the control panel. Sometimes those pages don’t load up at all; sometimes they load with no styling whatsoever, just serif-font text all over the page, and perhaps not even fully loaded. This happened with 3 different browsers simultaneously: Firefox, Opera, and IE! It also happened while several other websites were working just fine, including other external blog-editing pages, so my only valid conclusion was that something was actually wrong with WordPress.com’s editing pages themselves. Because, on the other hand, browsing the actual blogs for only viewing purposes seems to work fine more often than the dashboard or editing pages.

    This really, really disappointed me, because aside from this worrying observation, I really love WordPress. Can someone please honestly tell me whether WordPress.com’s specifically editing pages sometimes do have issues with browsing or server stress? And if yes, then would you have tips to not make such a problem, if it happens, affect my ability to at least compose posts? For example, can I somehow compose posts offline, then have them published once I am able to browse the dashboard again?

    Many thanks.

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    timethief · Member ·

    Please try these three things:

    (1) force clearing the browser cache and cookies and then logging in again
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/

    (2) correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically

    > Settings > Writing
    locate and checkmark
    ____ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
    click Save Changes

    As you don’t have any posts you will not need to open them and make some unimportant change like editing out a period and editing it in again.

    (3) Dashboard – screen options – accessibility
    Dashboard > top right hand corner > “screen options”
    make selections and click “screen options” again to close

    (4)Check if your blog, web server and RSS feed are working correctly. http://ismyblogworking.com/

    In June I published an article titled: Blogging: Strategies for reducing page loading time that contains links to online page loading time checkers, and ten tips bloggers can use to make their pages load faster.
    http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/13/blogging-strategies-for-reducing-page-loading-time/

    You also can use this page loading speed checker online. http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test And, if you use a Firefox browser then note Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on, that performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code. These Page Speed tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance, and are aimed at evaluating the performance web pages and making suggestions on how to improve them. Download link and installation information. http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html

    (5) Reporting problems to Staff
    It’s important to note that when reporting problems to Staff you will get the best service by providing them with full specifics and details up front in your first communication with them. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/12/23/wordpress-com-support-tickets/

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