Front page load time

[Nesetalis]

The front page is, for some reason, very laggy. Perhaps scripts you are running, perhaps the multitude of sites that are being linked in.

Trying to load or refresh the main page, takes me 5 seconds, then another 3 or 4 seconds of the screen being frozen as twitter, reddit, and so forth wait to load. Perhaps put those things below the fold instead of on the front page? or perhaps put them serverside with a redirect to the actual links?

10 seconds may not seem like alot to wait for a page to load, but that is enough to make some one frustrated to browse a page and go elsewhere.

[Rii]

Yeah, I really don't mind the ads (the occasional auto-playing ad with sound aside, those can DIAF) but the Twitter/Reddit/Facebook/etc. thing has me using AdBlock just to make the site more responsive. =/

[Ondrej]

I second this, it's a PITA on my netbook and even mediocre notebook.

[JiminyJickers]

Yeah plays up for me too. But mine takes minutes and does'nt load up most of the pictures.

The comments also goes funny where I leave a comment and cannot see if afterwards. It shows in the little box to the side that shows latest comments but doesn't show up in the comments thread at all.

Pretty strange.

[Nesetalis]

its getting worse for me :\ seriously RPS guys, fix your page.. get rid of the damn twitter and what not displays X.x

[rsherhod]

A thousand times yes! It's got progressively worse as more of those social network buttons have been added.

[Insolentius]

I've registered solely to air my frustrations over this as well. It's making me look for news-worthy tidbits elsewhere.

[AKIRA_]

Just added these rules to adblock+ and fixed my frontpage laggy issues:

twitter.com$domain=www.rockpapershotgun.com
plattform.twitter.com$domain=www.rockpapershotgun.com
www.facebook.com$domain=www.rockpapershotgun.com
urls.api.twitter.com$domain=www.rockpapershotgun.com
www.reddit.com$domain=www.rockpapershotgun.com

Hope these helps.

[Nesetalis]

oh god, amazing AKIRA_ thank you so much.
I just sat through the page actually CRASHING while waiting for reddit to download.. :| i dont have this problem on other sites that have reddit and twitter links, but usually they have just one, not a dozen of each.. so i dunno.

[ran93r]

I feel dirty doing it but thanks Akira, just what I needed. Came here to rage as performance has been hell for the last couple of days with both Twitter and Reddit causing the whole thing to hang.

[Insolentius]

Just wanted to say thanks, Akira. :)

[DarkNoghri]

Is there a way to whitelist RPS, but still block those? I feel like there has to be a way, but I'm not wanting to search right now.

[rsherhod]

Wow, what a difference!

[CMaster]

It's funny, I don't notice the social media stuff making any difference. Even when it is being slow, the rest of the page still loads fine, and its not like I notice the buttons popping in, or care.

[Insolentius]

It's funny, I don't notice the social media stuff making any difference. Even when it is being slow, the rest of the page still loads fine, and its not like I notice the buttons popping in, or care.

Unlike people who have experienced no trouble whatsoever, some of us were/are unable to navigate the site before all of the facebook/twitter/reddit junk was/is loaded (it usually takes between 5-10 secs)... which was/is annoying.

[CMaster]

Unlike people who have experienced no trouble whatsoever, some of us were/are unable to navigate the site before all of the facebook/twitter/reddit junk was/is loaded (it usually takes between 5-10 secs)... which was/is annoying.

Oh, not doubting it was a real problem or that it should be solved. Just confused as to why it's a problem for some and not others. Down to browser? (Firefox 5 here)

[Ondrej]

Oh, not doubting it was a real problem or that it should be solved. Just confused as to why it's a problem for some and not others. Down to browser? (Firefox 5 here)

I think it has to do with those external respond times. It still needs to disappear.

[psyk]

Said this ages ago and basically got told that my internet is crap and I should sort it out lol. ever since the redesign it has gone to crap and is getting worse.

To add to Akira_'s great list

http://*.gravatar.com

EDIT - Is the site the avatars are getting pulled from so block that and you can't see avatars.

[TaBuNiW]

At the time of this post the frontpage has 42 scripts running. Eleven scripts each from twitter, reddit and facebook. I have no clue what all this scripts are for, but without them loading time is down to 1-2 seconds for me.
Like I said, I have no clue what they are for, but are 33 scripts really needed?

[measurements]

Have you guys heard of No Script? It's a firefox add-on. It is not as morally definite as adblock, so I shouldn't feel too bad recommending it here. Plus if you have a job you can definitely afford to subscribe and feel no moral qualms at all.

If you don't have a job then quit eating bagels and get one. Then eat bagels.