Possible Problems on the Horizon?

tiburonfirst · Aug 30, 2014

it happened once before and ended in web site problems for ecf. i'm not sure if i'm jumping the gun but better safe than sorry

as of this morning, any thread i open never seems to stop loading. :?:

even though the page seems to be complete my little circle in ff keeps spinning and spinning.
on the bottom i see '' read e-cigarette-forum.com'' and it never stops unless i go to ''my posts'' or the main forum page.
this happens only on ecf - my news sites and other web pages load fine.

xp pro, ff v31.0

DaveP · Aug 30, 2014

I see this all the time, but it comes and goes. I'm on a 16mbps cable connection with consistent 10-14ms ping (extremely good). I just thought it was happening when the site was busy.

tiburonfirst · Aug 30, 2014

lucky you!

i'm getting online with a verizon hot spot and a very inconsistent connection. that's why i'm careful not to jump the gun - in most cases the problem is mine

DaveP · Aug 30, 2014

Go to Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test and see how your internet connection stacks up. It's funny. My connection is absolutely great by the standards of my past ISP's, but the graphic says I'm slower than 61% of the nation! I"m paying for 16mbps and getting that (minus overhead).

FWIW, here's the results of my pingtest with ECF. The "time" parameter is the number of milliseconds it took for the round trip to ECF and back. That's really good.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Dave>ping www.e-cigarette-forum.com

Pinging www.e-cigarette-forum.com [198.41.187.238] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 198.41.187.238: bytes=32 time=26ms TTL=57
Reply from 198.41.187.238: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=57
Reply from 198.41.187.238: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=57
Reply from 198.41.187.238: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 198.41.187.238:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 26ms, Maximum = 31ms, Average = 27ms

tiburonfirst · Aug 30, 2014

lol - no need for me to get aggravated first thing in the morning

i know what results i'll get at speedtest.net

my grade is so low 98% of users do better :lol:

DaveP · Aug 30, 2014

If you are up to doing some diagnostics with Windows, you can click on the start button, enter CMD into the search box and press enter, then paste the ping line below (without the quotes) into the command line window that comes up and hit return. That will check your connection to ECF and return some results.

"ping www.e-cigarette-forum.com"

tiburonfirst · Aug 30, 2014

dave, no need for diagnostics - this spinning wheel is happening only on ecf. weather underground, fb, ebay and news sites are loading fine for me this morning.
and i distinctly remember this happened once before and shortly thereafter ecf ran into serious problems. not sure if those 2 things were related but i thought it was mentioning - just in case!

AttyPops · Sep 3, 2014

I get that sometimes too Tibs. I'm not 100% sure on this, but it's probably some advertising or some analytical link that isn't responding that's embedded in the main web page. It's kind of "background" stuff.

Translation: Just hit the "x" up by the address bar to make it stop if it bothers you.

retired1 · Sep 3, 2014

9 times out of 10, it's the Google API that causes slow load times. Not much we can do about it unfortunately.

tiburonfirst · Sep 3, 2014

thanks, atty!

and ...... my load times are acceptable atm, retired!

as far as i can see the page has loaded completely but, still, the wheel keeps spinning. atty must be right that some kind of background stuff is not responding. i'll just keep hitting the 'x' :laugh:

AttyPops · Sep 3, 2014

The google API is one of those background things. Could be google analytics, or other google stuff (search, etc).
Basically, if the page was fully loaded, you wouldn't get the spinner. But it's 99% loaded and still renders so you do see it and can hit the 'x'.

tiburonfirst · Sep 3, 2014

ok, ok, atty! as far as i can see the page is complete and displays promptly!

slow load times to me means i can't see what's on the page.

this is not the case - atm i'm able to type my reply while watching the spinning wheel :facepalm:

the other day, in a different thread, i must have had that spinning wheel for 10 minutes or more. i load 40 posts per page and was catching up reading and answering multi-quotes. since i type with one finger it takes a bit of time :facepalm:

just looked at the top of the page and yup, it's still spinning.
the reason i mentioned it, the last time this happened ecf went down not long after. coincidence?

AttyPops · Sep 3, 2014

tiburonfirst said:
ok, ok, atty! as far as i can see the page is complete and displays promptly!

slow load times to me means i can't see what's on the page. this is not the case - atm i'm able to type my reply while watching the spinning wheel
the other day, in a different thread, i must have had that spinning wheel for 10 minutes or more. i load 40 posts per page and was catching up reading and answering multi-quotes. since i type with one finger it takes a bit of time
just looked at the top of the page and yup, it's still spinning.
the reason i mentioned it, the last time this happened ecf went down not long after. coincidence?

Probably coincidence. I was eating a PB&J at the time. Of course, now I don't eat PB&J while surfing ECF because...well..... :lol:

tiburonfirst · Sep 3, 2014

progg · Sep 3, 2014

Hi tib, long time eh?

Try ruling out the obvious common denominator -- temporarily block/disable your sig. I did a web page test and although your sig only took :

- Request 36: http://i45.tinypic.com/28m0hzs.jpg

URL: http://i45.tinypic.com/28m0hzs.jpg
Host: i45.tinypic.com
IP: 209.17.68.209
Location: Denver, CO
Error/Status Code: 200
Client Port: 53517
Start Offset: 1.564 s
DNS Lookup: 38 ms
Initial Connection: 113 ms
Time to First Byte: 129 ms
Content Download: 357 ms
Bytes In (downloaded): 18.2 KB
Bytes Out (uploaded): 0.4 KB

it was the top in the failed category (of course the standard is overall page optimum ) :

Compress Images: 64/100

86.7 KB total in images, target size = 55.9 KB - potential savings = 30.8 KB

FAILED - (17.8 KB, compressed = 7.2 KB - savings of 10.6 KB) - http://i45.tinypic.com/28m0hzs.jpg
WARNING - (14.4 KB, compressed = 8.2 KB - savings of 6.2 KB) - http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/17669030859272884268
WARNING - (13.9 KB, compressed = 7.8 KB - savings of 6.1 KB) - http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/13114558309724628467
WARNING - (17.5 KB, compressed = 11.4 KB - savings of 6.0 KB) - http://casaa.org/images/9974739e5e33027c7244f0b4518d5a2d.jpg
WARNING - (7.4 KB, compressed = 6.2 KB - savings of 1.2 KB) - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/customavatars/avatar37016_11.gif
WARNING - (9.8 KB, compressed = 9.1 KB - savings of 0.7 KB) - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/customavatars/avatar39553_693.gif

Use Progressive JPEGs: 0/100

0.0 KB of a possible 63.6 KB (0%) were from progressive JPEG images

FAILED (17.8 KB) - http://i45.tinypic.com/28m0hzs.jpg
FAILED (17.5 KB) - http://casaa.org/images/9974739e5e33027c7244f0b4518d5a2d.jpg
FAILED (14.4 KB) - http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/17669030859272884268
FAILED (13.9 KB) - http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/13114558309724628467
Info (9.8 KB) - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/customavatars/avatar39553_693.gif
Info (7.4 KB) - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/customavatars/avatar37016_11.gif
Info (5.6 KB) - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/customavatars/avatar30889_340.gif
Info (0.4 KB) - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/images/smilies/bluewinky.jpg

WebPagetest Optimization Check Results - Dulles : [url]www.e-c....html#post14066516 - 09/03/14 21:38:25[/url]

Looking at the results lead me to believe your sig (tinypic) is most likely not causing your issue but it's worth a try going au naturel for a bit. Could be the PB&J, though. :laugh:

tiburonfirst · Sep 3, 2014

hiya, progg! you deserter!

but that problem just started, and as i mentioned before the page loads just fine, including my signature! but something tries loading in the background apparently, something that's not visible :?:

classwife · Sep 3, 2014

tiburonfirst said:

Quoting ...because once is just not enough :facepalm:

tiburonfirst · Sep 4, 2014

@ progg ............. gotta be the PB&J

@ classy .................. that'll break atty's heart!

tiburonfirst · Sep 4, 2014

i'll be .................. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it doesn't happen using roly's favorite (default) skin. and i hate that layout! :facepalm:

maybe retired can figure it out now :?:

ecf-1 i believe should still be fully supported!

tiburonfirst · Sep 4, 2014

but why is there no like button in this skin?

edit - i think it's time to fetch my sig again and get out of this default skin

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