Site slowness

[DaveLanders Profile 14er Peak List Not Entered]

Over the last few weeks, I have noticed times when the site is very slow as I move back and forth
from the home page to a forum topic listed on the home page and back again. When I use my
browser's back button to go back to the home page, I will see a message in the lower left hand
corner (after the home page appears to be re-loaded):

Downloading picture res://ieframe.dll/background_gradient.jpg ...

This will often take 10 or more seconds to complete; during this time my mouse is disabled and I
can't click on the next forum topic that I would like to read.

I have also seen brief messages flash by with the dreaded word "facebook" in them, but they
haven't stayed on screen long enough for me to read them.

Any thoughts? Unfortunately, I am not using computers that I own, so I have no control over any
software that is or is not installed on them.

[BillMiddlebrook]

Sounds like it might be a browser/cache/proxy or software problem on your computer.

I haven't seen that and looking through the server logs, I don't see much for long page times when going from forum to home page. It usually takes a second to re-gen the home page content because the 14ers.com has a NOCACHE directive so content is refreshed each time you hit the home page. And there are no hidden Facebook links when hitting the home page but there is a link to the 14ers.com FB group.

Also, since you mentioned your mouse freezes up, it could be a software problem on your computer. Our home page uses Adobe Flash Player and Java. If clearing your cache doesn't help, you might try uninstalling Flash and letting it re-install.

[BillMiddlebrook]

Any luck getting this worked out?

[DaveLanders Profile 14er Peak List Not Entered]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the tips. Right now my session is behaving fine, without my doing anything different.
I will try clearing the browser cache the next time things slow down.

[DaveLanders Profile 14er Peak List Not Entered]

My session was starting to slow down a little while ago, so I cleared the browser cache, and things
sped up tremendously. Thanks Bill!