Slow loading, often unresponsive WordPresses
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Howdy,
I run a group of wordpress blogs for an Australian not-for-profit radio station and we use the blogs for presenter playlists, some podcasting, etc and have had a good experience with wordpress so far…
But for the last couple of weeks I’ve had huge problems rendering most of the sites unuseable – They’ve been slow loading, displaying incorrectly, unresponsive at times and make it extremely difficult to get anything done!
I’ve tried on my home computer (A Macbook – on Safari, Flock, Firefox and Chrome) using my home ISP (Telstra Bigpond), I’ve also used my work network (a university ISP – AARNET) on both Mac (Safari) and PC (Internet Explorer) and the problem is happening across a number of blogs that I administrate.
There seems to be no other problem with the Internet connections I’ve used, all other pages I’ve tried work fine!
I wonder whether it’s a localised issue, like an Australian server playing up or something? Either way it’s making wordpress almost impossible to use (which is disappointing, because as a not for profit organisation, wordpress has been a great alternative to other more costly ways of having a web presence!)
Anyone had a similar experience?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We can’t begin to help you without links to the blogs in question, starting with http. It’s usually a localized connection issue, but we need to check to be sure.
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Hi Jonathan,
I tried the front pages of several of your blogs from an Australian ISP (Internode). No problems with speed or responsiveness. They all loaded within a few seconds; the bulk of that time was images, and the load time was about right given my DSL connection’s bandwidth.
Are you referring to the public pages or wp-admin? Can you post a few specific links just so I can be sure I’m looking at the same stuff?
Safari has a tool that can help to pinpoint a particular file or script that is causing a page to slow down. See What’s taking so long. If you’re able to try that, does anything stand out as being unusually slow?
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I’ve been having problems with both the public pages and the Dashboard refusing to display properly or load.
I’ll try the Safari tool and post back!
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The problem seems to be intermittent, now both the public pages and Dashboard seem to be loading fine…I’ll post back if the issue comes back…
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If your problems were limited to the last 2 days I’d suggest it might be related to an ongoing DDoS attack that is attempting (and failing) to disrupt WordPress.com. The right (or wrong) combination of web and DNS caching might result in intermittent slowdowns. But since it’s been happening for weeks that’s unlikely.
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I’m having the same issue with 2 of my blogs – vodafonecwu.com and vmreachingout.com.
I can get neither of them to load, have tried separate machines and both Firefox and IE.
Can you advise what the issue is and when it will be resolved?
Thanks
Neil
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For your informationI
I’m aware of your problems but not sure if you’re wanting to keep hearing from people or not.
Here in Montreal the problem seems to be getting worse.
Yesterday & today: Erratic slow loading
Last few hours: Site loads, I can access an admin page but as I navigate between pages I frequently lose the site completely.
I cannot publish my post.
Good luck,
and there should be a special place for whoever is doing this -
Over several months now, My WordPress pages, both the blog and the dashboard, have been slow and not formatting correctly. Several reloads (ctrl f5) eventually gets a correctly formatted page. It is an intermittent problem. It only happens on my wordpress page, other sites load fine.
I had put it down to the fact that it was my satelite connection that was causing the problem,but if others are having troubles …
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I’m having similar problems, generally occurring when I attempt to upload or edit images/galleries. It takes so long, even if I attempt to save changes as I go along, it times out and the updates haven’t gone through.. we’re on the road, with limited opps to make updates, so the delays are making upkeep a real challenge.
– Photos have all been compressed for web viewing..
Cheers,
Stephen -
@chilliams
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I too am having problems.
My dashboard isn’t loading properly. The “My Account … My Dashboard … New Post” bar does not appear. I am not able to post correctly, either. The posting goes directly to HTML and not Visual, making certain options not appear/work. This is very frustrating because I run a ministry through this site.
Here’s my blog: http://six11.wordpress.com
The page loads up to about 95-98%, but then stops. Here’s what I have done so far:
I run Firefox 3.5.6 … so I tried Chrome (same issue), Safari (same issue), Flock (same issue), and Opera (same issue)
I cleared my cache and offline cache – same problem keeps occurring
On the bottom status bar (on Firefox) I keep seeing things like “Read i2.ytimg.com” or “Transfering data …” and the like … but the page never finishes loading
PLEASE HELP … I’m going nuts trying to figure out what’s wrong!
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Moving to https has so far cured my recurring Dashboard problems (knocking wood). http://en.support.wordpress.com/https/
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I tried switching to the HTTPS mode, too, and the problem is still happening. Currently, the page is saying “Transferring data from s1.wordpress.com …. ” and “Connecting to edge.quantserve.com …”
I have no idea what this means. :)
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This post … https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-new-post-and-edit-post-pages-not-loading-properly?replies=5#post-417162 … has also described the problem I am having!
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Did you update your flash as rain suggested in that thread? Here’s adobe’s site for testing which version is installed on your computer http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html
Another thing, if you are using a home wireless network, reset your router. This step cured a lot of my problems, together with going to https.
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