Thurrott site horribly slow

Hi folks. I’m running W10 on both devices and the site has been terribly slow over these past two or three days. Just wondering if anyone else is also experiencing this. Cheers 🙂

Conversation 19 comments

  • 49

    Premium Member
    07 December, 2016 - 7:46 pm

    <p>Hmm, havent noticed anything here….will be curious what others say.</p>

  • 5530

    08 December, 2016 - 1:26 am

    <p>Nope, nothing here. Thurrott.com has always been fast for me, even on mobile.</p>

  • 5027

    08 December, 2016 - 4:23 am

    <p>Works just fine here, fast as always</p>

  • 5615

    08 December, 2016 - 5:38 am

    <p>No issues with speed here.</p>

  • 442

    08 December, 2016 - 9:12 am

    <p>I’ve noticed it getting slower recently.&nbsp; Not much, but still noticeable.</p>

  • 907

    09 December, 2016 - 12:24 am

    <p>Thanks for the replies, it seems it must be an issue at my end. The issue persists and I have tried Chrome, IE and Edge with similar results. I have also tried my two W10 devices as well as my Android phone. I thought it may be a problem with my wifi however the only site I’m having this issue is Thurrott. Any ideas would be welcome. Cheers :)</p>

  • 5447

    05 January, 2017 - 4:31 pm

    <p>It’s not just you! I am trying to figure out why the site loads like molasses here. I have confirmed it loads slow on different computers, and interestingly, if I VPN through Singapore, it loads fast. I’m in Australia, and I wonder if there is some issue with the route between me and thurrott.com.</p>
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    <p>The site is almost unusable it’s that bad.</p>

    • 907

      05 January, 2017 - 6:11 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#34122">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/LordPhantom">LordPhantom</a><a href="#34122">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>I’m also in Australia, Melbourne to be exact. The site is still terrible for me, basically I click on my Thurrott bookmark and open another window and carry on doing other things for the five minutes or so it takes to load. Since it started I have pretty much stopped commenting and reading most articles. I’m losing interest because of it. It has to be an Australia issue given we both are here.</p>

    • 5027

      07 January, 2017 - 6:25 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#34122">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/LordPhantom">LordPhantom</a><a href="#34122">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>Have you tried to do a traceroute ? &nbsp;Both with and without VPN &nbsp;?</p>

    • 907

      08 January, 2017 - 3:57 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#34122">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/LordPhantom">LordPhantom</a><a href="#34122">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>Due to the new pirate site blocking by all the ISP’s I have just purchased and installed ExpressVPN. I set it to New York and Thurrott loads as it should. Guess it’s a VPN for Thurrott and Petri from now on. ?</p>

  • 100

    05 January, 2017 - 9:00 pm

    <p>No problems at all for me in northern NSW Australia. Loads fast as usual.</p>

  • 1534

    06 January, 2017 - 7:24 pm

    <p>I’m in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and thurrott.com&nbsp;is fast here.&nbsp;</p>

    • 907

      07 January, 2017 - 3:23 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#34374">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/TraderGary">TraderGary</a><a href="#34374">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>Cheers Gary, I appreciate the&nbsp;input mate. It would seem to be an Australian issue mate. ?</p>

      • 5428

        Premium Member
        08 January, 2017 - 12:40 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#34403">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/anchovylover">anchovylover</a><a href="#34403">:</a> I don’t have any speed issues with Thurrott.com in Canberra, Australia. (Do have an adblocker running though.)</em></blockquote>
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  • 6672

    07 January, 2017 - 4:00 pm

    <p>I suspect one of the advertising networks embedded in the page is having issues "down under". Unfortunately, most sites these days give priority to the ad content, which must fully load before the "real" content is displayed and is navigable. If you don’t run an ad-blocker, it might be time to do so if only to test what I propose as the problem. Step two is to try a different DNS server. Those Google guys have a popular one and it reduces the overhead required to track your every move and breath…</p>

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