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Houzz Slow Loading Forums and Pages?

7 years ago

Computer novice here so not sure what the problem is. The short version :

This site (no other sites) is very slow to load lately. It takes about 15 seconds to open a forum and another 15 seconds to load a page of that forum. It used to be very quick at 1-2 seconds. I tried a couple of things like unplugging the pc and also unplugging the router for a few minutes but that was unhelpful to speed thing up.

One thing I see popping up in the address box is a tiny icon that says "This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources". Is that a problem? I use google chrome with Norton security and run a full systems scan weekly, no help there. Cookie overload? Any advice to speed thing up is greater appreciated. Thanks.

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dadoes

7 years ago

Probably a new batch of embedded ads. I run an adblocker so don't see much of that.

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vgkg Z-7 Va
Original Author
7 years ago
Thx dadoes, the right side of my screen has ads and lots of other site related info even continuing down below each thread. It always has had ads but the slow down has started within the past 2 weeks. My less powerful tablet is quicker than my pc in loading these forums and pages. Maybe Houzz is trying to discourage me from coming around, I wouldn't blame em', nyuk.
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Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
7 years ago
If it were me I'd probably start by running a speed test to make sure my speed hadn't dropped. http://openspeedtest.com/ and/or http://speedtest.net

Next I'd try a different browser such as Firefox.

If Firefox was much faster I'd probably reset Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214

Out of curiosity I just disabled my adblocker and related addons. Pages still loaded quickly.

(Running Firefox in Linux on an older desktop)
vgkg Z-7 Va thanked Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
vgkg Z-7 Va
Original Author
7 years ago
Thx Richard, I'm saving your instructions for now...

On top of that, each forum page lacks any pop-ups, only the separate threads load the pop-ups, yet both the forum page and the thread pages take 15 secs to load. Still, this delay is only at this site and no others. weird.

Plus, Any explanations for this : I just logged on to Houzz sites via incognito and things were as rapid fast as they used to be, each forum and thread page loaded with 1-2 seconds and not the 15 secs via a normal log-in. Still head scratching......
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Fast via incognito - slow when logged in, that could be a clue.

Logged in vs. not logged in is not a switch on (or remembered by) the server, it's determined by the state of a cookie.

Have you tried clearing cookies? And cache?

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
vgkg Z-7 Va
Original Author
7 years ago
Thx again Richard, a few hours ago I followed your most recent advice and deleted all cookies on the list which were under both "Gardenweb" and "Houzz". All toll it was about 15 cookies listed for both. I shutdown the pc for a while and just returned to find the speed a tiny bit better (10secs v 15) so it helped a bit. Still odd that it's just this site that is slow, no others. I may need to re-register under a new name and see if that works, had the same handle here since the Spike days back in 1998 so reluctant to do that.
vgkg Z-7 Va
Original Author
7 years ago
Update,, still slow as molasses. But I just noticed something that had not gotten my attention before. While waiting for a forum page to load (15 secs) there is a tiny window in the bottom left hand corner of the screen that says : "waiting for gardenweb.com..." Is this the problem, waiting for the old GW site to load? As stated before I registered with GW back in 1998/99 and have had the same handle for 20 years.
vgkg Z-7 Va
Original Author
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Update & Fix...

Some "fix", last night the pc would not turn off when the button was pushed, so I unplugged it for a couple of hours and plugged it back in. Today this site is running fast again, very fast. weird & pleased. Thx for those tips Richard, they still helped a lot and will again no doubt.
vgkg Z-7 Va
Original Author
7 years ago
Well so much for that "fix", spoke too soon, back to slowville today, Still think it has something to do with the little box on the bottom left saying "waiting for gardenweb.com".

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