In 2010 I’ll be leaving WordPress.com
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I have pretty much given up, and I’ll be moving my WordPress.com blog somewhere else. The site is so slow most of the time, then it comes up all distorted with no graphics like now. It took me over 2 minutes to get even this to load. I have a newer laptop…there is no excuse for this. I fight this site all the time, and it’s just not worth it anymore. I’ve done everything I can with popup and ad blockers, and every other suggestion that has been made to me to solve this problem. Obviously, it’s a site problem, as I don’t have it anywhere else. I hate to be leaving WordPress, but I don’t have time to play waiting games for a blog I can’t monetize or use my domain name with.
Thanks for everything. I’ll miss the way the site worked when I first came here, but I won’t miss this. Now, let’s see how long this takes to post…IF it does at all.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Firstly, can you post your compete URL – someone may be able to offer suggestions, but not unless we can see the problem.
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@greenlasagna
I recall that you have had this problem for sometime now. I’m sorry I can’t help with it. I never experience what you do and can’t help but think this must have something to do with your ISP. Is this the only site you have trouble with? Are you on broadband service or dial-up? -
BTW I see that you were given advice in another thread on this same subject that you did not reply to. I’m posting that belwo for you to read
Quoting TSP from https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/very-very-slow-loading-of-pages-lately?replies=8
@greenlasagna, you need to look over the W3C XHTML validation report for your blog main page. It is reporting 65 errors and many of those have to do apparently with misuse of HTML tags for fonts, sizes and such. Every such error causes a browser to pause and try to figure out exactly what you meant so that it can try to display the page the way you intended. A lot of the HTML tags that are being used in your blog for font-face, size and such are not valid when used in an XHTML document, and wordpress is XHTML.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgreenlasagna.wordpress.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 -
http://greenlasagna.wordpress.com/ if this is you, you can use your own domain with WordPress.com, http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/ You are still bound by the WordPress.com ToS, so that means no ads. If that is a deal-breaker for you, you can always export your WordPress.com content and import it to the new address if you’re using the WordPress.ORG blogging software on your self-hosted site. http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
I do see on that WordPress.com site that the blog has already moved to a new non-WordPress.com address, so if that isn’t you… please do give us your blog address.
Slowness can be caused by many things and not always due to WordPress.com itself. For me, the two things that helped “cure” my problems accessing WordPress.com was:
- resetting my router by turning it off and then on
- changing my user preference to access the Dashboard via https
Good luck no matter which way you choose to go.
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The other thing to do is use one of the online speed tests to test your internet upload and download connection performance. I was having issues a few years ago and by testing the connection speed on a couple different computers at my house, and seeing the same slow performance with all of them, I went after my ISP and after a couple days they found the issue and my connection from that point on was what it should be.
This is the place I usually use, http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but there are others.
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@tt, I thought it’d probably be user error…
I have a feeling greenlasagna won’t be back here, though – I think s/he was just venting! But if s/he didn’t read the previous advice, it all gets a bit futile, for everybody.
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I clicked “member” under her username and all read the threads. I think you could be right because when TSP and Tellyworth entered the “very, very slow loading of pages lately” thread that I linked to above and offered their advice (get firebug and correct validation errors) she never posted to it again.
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We cannot solve problems for people who will not even look up the solutions we’ve given them. I don’t anticipate that greenlasagne will find the new blog home any easier to deal with until gl changes learning styles.
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There’s no sign of anything slow or broken on any of @greenlasagna’s blogs. Those blogs run exactly the same software on exactly the same servers as every other WordPress.com blog.
The problem is most likely a local network or PC problem.
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I’m sorry I’m not replying within your freaking time limits, but I have a life that doesn’t always comply with what others want. There is really no need for the narcissistic name calling.
I said in my first post that I had tried everything. This is INDEED the ONLY site this happens on, as I also said in my original post.
You could take the time to say mean things about me, but you could not read the original post? That speaks to some serious personality faults.
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Mentioning the fact that you tend not to return to threads you’ve started or implement solutions volunteers have suggested is not saying mean things; it’s just an observation.
As I’ve said before, starting a blog with WordPress.com still involves a learning curve, and the curve is steepest if you have little or no web skills previously. The forums and Support Docs are there to assist and there are outside resources available too.
FWIW self-hosting your own WordPress.ORG blog will make that learning curve look like a walk in the park as you will be responsible for absolutely everything concerning your self-hosted blog. Regardless, good luck.
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greenlasagna: For what it’s worth, I see no issues with your page loading on my machine. Sounds very frustrating for you, but it sounds like a resolvable issue, and not something that WordPress.com is necessarily causing.
In either case, best of luck!
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@greenlasagne
I observed that this was a second thread on this subject and that you had yet to respond to the comments made in the first one here
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/very-very-slow-loading-of-pages-lately?replies=8(1) I have no trouble at all with the site loading time for your blog and also did a site loading speed test here http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test results
1 greenlasagne.wordpress.com 16.74 KB 0.96 seconds 0.06 seconds(2) If you want to you could you enter your url into this website optimization checker and view the results and recommendations.
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/Regardless of whether you stay or leave, I wish you all the best with your blogging.
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The only time the insane delay is when you preview/publish a post.
If you can’t handle that then, self host. Not a problem.
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Ever heard of the term ‘projection?’
Interesting how she lashes out by calling the volunteers’ responses narcissistic while obviously failing to have a serious look at the matter, because one of the traits of the true narcissist is to assume they’re never at fault and to blame everyone else for their problems. -
…lettershometoyou, piling on is never cool.
WP Keymaster Telly says there’s no problem on the WP side, timethief has offered the appropriate links, it’s up to greenlasagna to decide what to do next… and it looks like she’s gone to self-hosting.
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..which has a few problems:
http://ismyblogworking.com/greenlasagna.com
(to be fair, those are caused by frame redirection – http://ismyblogworking.com/www.greenlasagna.com)
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it is pretty much fast, and also does not query much domains, like my blog has the digg buttons which slows me down. I think the wordpress.com works fine. Self hosting is a headache , because you have to personally do all the stuff. At first i also started personal hosted blog, but lat er switched to wordpress.com, and will soon map my domain. I would suggest mapping the domain to wordpress.com.
Ya the posting business is slow. I have to take half an hour in hand when i publish some new post.
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