Comments on: New Home for Daily Dose?

By: Load Speed Update

Load Speed Update — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:02:00 +0000

Don’t know what you’ve done differently today (if anything), but it’s coming up instantly today. Nice. If it keeps up I’ll have a new home page… )

By: Load Speed Update

Load Speed Update — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:38:00 +0000

Tried your request of clicking on other Typepad sites from the recently updated list - they all come up almost instantly.

I don't think your images are the culprit - the comments page for this entry (which is all text as far as I can tell) doesn't come up any quicker.

I have Colo's RSS reader in Excel - the RSS feed is instant.

Hope this helps.

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 03:27:00 +0000

Maybe you guys can do me a favor. Go to typepad.com and click on a few other typepad sites (like from the recently updated list). See if you get the same loading characteristics. I’d be interested to know if it’s typepads servers or something I’m doing. I think I use quite a bit more images than most sites, but it should still be noticeable if the problem’s on their end. Thanks if you can help with that.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:39:00 +0000

The loading is the same for me: fast header and list, excruciatingly slow with the blog entries. This is my home/work cable internet access with no filters other than the Proxometron to block popups and ads (it has no effect on any other blogs).

So I click on the link, and about three others at the same time, then read them in reverse order. By the time I'm finished with the others, Dick's is waiting.

- Jon

By: Load Speed Update

Load Speed Update — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:30:00 +0000

Dick,

Just as an update on the load speed - as previously mentioned, the sidebar and banner load almost instantly, while the blog entries take ages. Only seems to happen at work, not at home using a 56K modem. I had a chat with one of our technical boffins, they said that it may be down to the WebSense software that is used for restricting access to sites at work. It could be taking a while to load while the blog entries are scanned for potential "nastiness".

Sounded like a bit of a stab in the dark to me, as other blogs (such as J-Walk) don't suffer the same delays. But then I don't know how the blog entries are stored by the different blog software packages, so there may be something in it.

Regardless of what happens, your blog is in no danger at all of falling off my "check multiple times a day" list. Without wanting to sound like a total suck-up, I would argue that rather than being referred to as a Microsoft MVP, you could be referred to as "The Microsoft MVMVP" due to all the great stuff you've put up.

Love your work...

By: Doug Glancy

Doug Glancy — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:23:00 +0000

Dick,

I echo everything Rob said. Great site, regular posts are good (I miss it when you're "gone" for a day or two) and the speed is fine.

By: Rob van Gelder

Rob van Gelder — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:31:00 +0000

Dick,

Excellent site.
I've make reading it part of my morning routine (e-mail, news, Dick's blog) - so I'd have to be honest and say regular entries are very nice.

That said, I enjoy reading everyone elses comments almost as much as your own.

I noticed the loading speed up until recently. A few days ago it sped up.

I'm on 33k6 so I learn to be happy with what I've got.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:30:00 +0000

Hi Dick,

Your blog used to be slow but seem to have gotten a lot better recently.

Then again, I am in a completely different time zone. I have lots of trouble posting late at night which I think is because maintenance is being done then.

Posting when you can is better than not at all. Your blog is always appreciated

By: Hugh Lerwill

Hugh Lerwill — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:52:00 +0000

Dick,

Have you tried freeola.com as a host. It it free and supports php, not sure about bandwidth limits.
Worth a look!

By: Paul Hoch

Paul Hoch — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 04:14:00 +0000

PS – you get 25 Gig a month of traffic…