How long does it take for page to load when posting?

ages and ages.

edit 21s

Seemingly forever.
To the point where STWers have been saved from many of my posts because of that prospect of waiting. It may not be all bad?

28s just then.

maybe a minute, but it often just crashes or times out first....

Yes, lately it's been taking a couple of Ice Ages from hitting submit to anything appearing.

Not just me then. Feels like forever. Does make you consider if it's worth commenting (which may not be a bad thing).

Edit. 24 Mississippis

I try not to be critical of the site, as I know it's run on a shoe string - but it, by a massive margin, the worst site on the internet for responsiveness / stability (that I know of).

Does make you consider if it’s worth commenting

Has it ever made a difference in the past?

This site hasn't worked properly for maybe 10+ years?

Let's see...

*EDIT* - 18 seconds

*EDIT* - 3 seconds

*EDIT* - 3 seconds again, so maybe it's something to do with the first time you post on a particular thread.

I don't know

22.34 secs (edit took 3.09 secs)

Lately it's been taking between 20 & 30 seconds.

Around 30s. Interesting though that just loading a page without posting is nearly instant.

ETA- 26.39

Tech are investigating

It didn’t used to be like this with the delay - it’s a new thing I reckon. Been a month or 2 perhaps?

Yeah, a recent thing for me anyway...maybe 4 weeks-ish. However, sounds like not just me which is good news for me - I thought this place was going the way of my family with me!

Tech are investigating

😊👊

Tech are investigating

Thanks @Mark - this wasn't intended as a bug report thing, more just seeing if it was just me that was experiencing this delay. However, if it turns up something that can be improved then all good.

Subsequent edits seem fine, it's only the initial post that takes forever

Edit: checks, yep, seems much faster on the edit

Just testing

First time was 23 seconds.
This one took 25 seconds.

Subsequent edits seem fine, it’s only the initial post that takes forever

Yup as someone who multiple edits I find the more you edit the quicker it responds.

A preview button would be useful. I always found it was when there was one. Also sometimes a preview could give you a better idea how your point comes across before you post. You can't really make major changes to your post after hitting submit if you feel there was a better way of saying something.

I noticed it a few weeks ago. It doesn't seem to be an issue getting the post to the server though as I have occasionally opened a new tab straight after sending a post and it's viewable on that instantly, the tab I've posted from though can take up to a minute to load!

It regularly times out completely for me when I try and refresh or go to the main forum page - maybe one in three attempts, Firefox just gives up and says page unresponsive...

Is everyone else getting T- cut and very tidy women in their 40's looking for something or is it my accidental browsing history . Honest guv I'm not looking get rid of scratches in my paintwork or another woman in my life, one is more than enough

I want to play as well!

Edit: 21.66 seconds.

Is everyone else getting T- cut and very tidy women in their 40’s

Your username is very close to a well-known car product, I suppose. Perhaps it thinks you're interested in flame-haired former girlfriends as well?

EDIT: Also 21 secs

Sloooooooooow.

Edit. Yes. Somewhere around 21 seconds.

Ha!

Now you guys know what it's like from behind the Great Firewall with a VPN on.

I had put it down to my aged MacBook dragging it's arse so I'm quite pleased to find it isn't.

This is still happening for me. Anyone else still 'suffering'? #firstworldproblem

Still slow when posting. Have got used to it though.

Slow when posting for me

Edit - 21 seconds ish

Yeah, still very slow for me - posting replies, editing posts or posting new posts...

I wouldn't say I'm used to it, but nothing seems to be able to be done to fix it, so you have to bear with it.

if you post, pressing the submit button and then even 1s later press the forum button/link, your post still appears but after 1s rather than waiting 20+s

your post still appears but after 1s rather than waiting 20+s

That's good to know. There are times when waiting 20 seconds to admire with smug satisfaction my carefully crafted work of art seems like an eternity.

It's reassuring to learn that I can reduce it to just 1 second if the tension proves too great 😏

I’ve noticed it being a bit slow recently on Firefox. I always used to use Brave, but when the Preferences box at the bottom pops up, it locks the whole page. I can check the box, but nothing happens. Which is fine, I’ve got other browsers, but Brave used to be very reliable. 🤷🏼

Way too long. I've got into the habit of copying the post before pressing submit because one or two have disappeared. I also had a 502 error (I think) reposted and ended up with two posts

Way too long = 21 seconds...

Quite a while. = 24 seconds

Bloody Whingers 🙂

Testing

Back button test successful.

Just counting the seconds to see what happens…

Edit: 19. Maybe I’m a slow counter

We do appreciate all the comments, and are continuing working/investigating this issue, we will update when we can

Tech Team

I find that if I hit submit and then start humming (and beeping) the dialup tone so familiar from my 1996 AOL account the 30 seconds just slips by.

I've paid for a special 'First Class' members rate so that my posts only take 10 seconds. It means other forum members have to sign to day they've received it though and if any members aren't logged in when I post on a thread they have to go and collect if from the sorting office.

EDIT - oddly - that post did only take about 10 seconds. Cosmic Ordering.

I have just had a post which took 41 seconds to load, it doesn't bother me other than the delay in correcting embarrassingly daft typos it might cause.

We do appreciate all the comments, and are continuing working/investigating this issue, we will update when we can

Thread resurrection.  Nothing has changed for me with this. It still takes 20 to 30 seconds for a new post to appear. Yep, first world problems 'n' all but wondered if there was any joy in sussing out what might be causing it?

Me too aye.

Yeah, it's a weird one. If you have the forum open in two tabs, you can see that your post has uploaded to the forum quite quickly. You can even open it in the second tab quite quickly. It's the refresh of the tab you posted in that is experiencing the big delay.

Edit: about 15 seconds.

Edit 2: but only seconds to add that edit.

Posting new threads takes about 30 seconds, posting replies is about 20 seconds and editing posts is about 20 seconds as well - the timings haven't really changed for me for a wee bit now, but I suspect we are now used to this new 'feature', but it is still an issue.

Whilst waiting for this to post, the wee status bar thing at the bottom was sat reporting that it was Waiting on region1.google.analytics.com - or something very similar...I've just been reading it aloud so I'd remember it and gone to type it and can't recall it!!!

Waiting on region1.google.analytics.com

I've blocked Google Analytics (NoScript plugin) and still have to wait, so that's unlikely to be the problem.

Testing

Write post.

Click [Submit].

Count 1... 2... 3...

Hit F5.

Enjoy my contribution in all it's glory, use the 27 seconds I've saved to update my memoirs.

While waiting for my post to load, I managed to take 2 screenshots, save them, upload them, paste the links into Notepad and STW still hadn't loaded. 😀
These were the things slowing it down -
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Let me see

Just me, or has it all gone screwy again..?

Posted 3 words, took over a minute before I got
"Error: Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds."

Post appeared when I refreshed. Other weird stuff experienced too.

Bit slower response but only a 5 second longer wait, so all done in about 10 seconds for me...not as fast as before but much quicker than it was.

...7 seconds, I just counted

Very slow tonight, perhaps some tinkering going on?