Sailnet way Slooooooooow

[max-on]

BF, instead of using Microsoft Internet Explorer as my web browser, I switched to Mozilla Firefox, another web browser, the speed is back to normal. I do not understand what the others are talking about. Just download Mozilla Firefox.

[therapy23]

Originally Posted by justmike

Using Safari (on a Mac) I can see the network timeline for a page. Using that I found that it was (IIRC), a javascript loaded from w w w.youchoose.net, I think for the new little petition window at the bottom.

Anyway, I got rid of it by adding an entry to /etc/hosts (on Windows I think it's at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\) mapping w w w.youchoose.net to 127.0.0.1, so it just can't load. Complete page load times went from about 1 minute back to ~2 seconds.

--jmike

p.s. Remove space from "w w w" above. I'm still too noob to be allowed to post anything that looks like URL.

Can't you just hack the site and take it out for us?

[bestfriend]

Originally Posted by max-on

BF, instead of using Microsoft Internet Explorer as my web browser, I switched to Mozilla Firefox, another web browser, the speed is back to normal. I do not understand what the others are talking about. Just download Mozilla Firefox.

Thanks, I have firefox, but use Safari for other reasons. Check out my new poll!!!!!

[justmike]

Originally Posted by therapy23

Can't you just hack the site and take it out for us?

Sorry, white hat here. :-)

IMO, a good short-term solution for non-technical users would be to use Firefox, as it's reported to work well with this widget.

Long-term, getting a fix from the developers for the problem (I'll volunteer to beta-test/debug, if that will help), or just remove it if it's not worth the effort.

[bestfriend]

I checked Firefox just to see, same problem. Its been this way for several days. I won't be back until they get it fixed or I post an update for Simon.

[justmike]

(This isn't anything that will help an end user, but perhaps might help the admin(s) get to the bottom of this.)

Specifically, the biggest lag is in the retrieval of a customized Javascript script called "widget-remote-script.js" which is retrieved with every page. Here's a retrieval for that file, which, you can see in this case, took about 34 seconds.

jmike@sigh % time wget http://www.youchoose.net/widgets/wid...mote-script.js
--2008-06-01 23:30:54-- http://www.youchoose.net/widgets/wid...mote-script.js
Resolving www.youchoose.net... 76.12.118.35
Connecting to www.youchoose.net|76.12.118.35|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/javascript]
Saving to: `widget-remote-script.js.1'

[ <=> ] 37,303 --.-K/s in 0.03s

2008-06-01 23:31:29 (1.06 MB/s) - `widget-remote-script.js.1' saved [37303]


real 0m34.421s
user 0m0.005s
sys 0m0.010s


Also, the time taken to perform this was almost entirely after the resolution of the host name, so it wouldn't appear to be a DNS problem:

jmike@sigh % time host www.youchoose.net
www.youchoose.net has address 76.12.118.35

real 0m0.014s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.005s

In case there was any doubt, yes, I'm a big ol' nerd.

Please ping me directly if I can help in any way.

[arf145]

For those who want to apply justmike's excellent fix and want instructions that are more spelled out (though this might still be hard for some):

Goal: Add a line to a file called "hosts" on your computer. The file is called simply "hosts" with no extension.

1. Find the file. On the Mac: justmike says it's in a folder called "etc". On Windows: go to the folder C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc. You may need to choose "Show hidden files and folders" in the Folder Options menus to see this. OR on Mac or Windows, search for the file (Windows: ignore the hosts file in the I386 folder--that's not it).

2. Open "hosts" in a text editor. Sorry, Macs, I don't know what yours is called, but I bet if you doubleclick on the file the Mac will open it. Windows: use Notepad by doubleclicking on the file and choosing Notepad from the list.

3. Go down to a line below all the lines that begin with "#". Type this in starting at the left:

127.0.0.1 w w w.youchoose.net

Don't put the spaces between "w w w"--I had to put those there so it wouldn't get turned into a link here. You do need at least one space between127.0.0.1 and www.

4. Save the file.

5. Restart your machine (I believe Windows requires this--don't know about the Mac.

That's it.

Tom

[teshannon]

It's been almost unusable but seemed ok just now.

[Freesail99]

Yes, it seems faster.

[justmike]

Much better, and the widget-remote-script.js file that was taking > 30 seconds to load last night is now loading in ~2 seconds.