Hi: For about the last two weeks I've had issues connecting with the website that I help run www.learnoutloud.com from my home connection which is Time Warner Cable Internet connection in Los Angeles. I'm on a Dell laptop Inspiron 6000 running Windows XP. Our site is Linux Apache MySQL PHP. I'm always able to connect to the site but what's happening is the page will get hung up on loading a single image usually and then it will take about a minute just to load that last image. And sometimes the page won't load at all, but all it takes usually is hitting the refresh button and the page loads instantly. I was hoping this issue would just go away, but it's been persistent after numerous restarts of our cable modem and switching from wireless to plugged in and so forth. And it's really only happening for our site and no others, which is just puzzling. At our office on our DSL connection our site loads fine and we haven't had any customer complaints about the site loading slow like this. Our traffic numbers have stayed steady so I don't think it's a global problem connecting with our site. At home I conduct a trace route and it looks good: Tracing route to learnoutloud.com [72.34.53.155] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 5 ms 5 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1 2 15 ms 13 ms 12 ms cpe-76-170-64-1.socal.res.rr.com [76.170.64.1] 3 12 ms 11 ms 9 ms 76.166.6.77 4 11 ms 12 ms 12 ms tge9-3.bwlaca1-rtr2.socal.rr.com [76.166.1.6] 5 11 ms 12 ms 16 ms tge9-2.bwlaca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com [76.166.1.4] 6 14 ms 15 ms 47 ms tge2-2-0.lsanca1-rtr1.socal.rr.com [66.75.161.20 1] 7 15 ms 18 ms 25 ms xe-8-1-0.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.78.195. 189] 8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms ae-12-69.car2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.20.4] 9 16 ms 15 ms 25 ms INTERNAP-NE.car2.Level3.net [4.71.36.78] 10 15 ms 15 ms 27 ms border1.po2-bbnet2.ext1.lax.pnap.net [216.52.255 .86] 11 16 ms 38 ms 25 ms insiderh-2.border1.ext1.lax.pnap.net [63.251.209 .106] 12 19 ms 29 ms 18 ms 72.34.41.10 13 32 ms 18 ms 18 ms 72.34.53.155 Trace complete. Does anyone know what the heck is going on and how I can fix this? David
Have you tried with any other connection? I think it is related to your cable ... I can load the site just fine ( It is a little slow .. but fully opens in about 7secs .. ) I get about 190ms from UK which isnt bad .. if it is server related then there is not much you can do other than contatcing your host or changing the host ( Maybe overselling? ) , You may try to compress the images a little to discrease their sizes which means smaller and faster pages!! Hope i helped!
It also loads slow but fine for me. You might want to consider turning on compression for the http stream so data is compressed between server->client resulting in a faster DL.