Re: BBC sites very slow.

On 18 Dec 2014 David Pitt <pittdj@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:

> Peter Young, on 18 Dec, wrote:

>> On 17 Dec 2014 Steve Fryatt <lists@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 17 Dec, Peter Young wrote in message
>>> <22e59c7754.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>:
>>
>>>> This is with RISC OS and development builds, currently #2441, but has
>>>> been happening for several days now.
>>>>
>>>> Any of the BBC sires are now taking a lot longer to download, maybe by
>>>> a factor of five to ten times as long. They are now even slower than
>>>> the www.msscociety.org.uk sites which till now have been the slowest
>>>> to download. I've checked my connection speed, and it's much the same
>>>> as usual.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a problem with NetSurf or with the BBC sites? I suspect the
>>>> latter.
>>
>>> Have you done the same comparison using another browser (on another OS),
>>> to confirm that it's actually NetSurf and not the sites themselves? For
>>> many sites, your connection speed won't be the limiting factor.
>>
>> Good point. Using http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/gl52 1 minute 20 seconds
>> with RISC OS NetSurf, already on the icon bar; with Chrome in Windows,
>> again already running, less than 2 seconds. Is this worth a bug report?

> NetSurf #2441 downloads the weather in 4.6s on the RaspberryPi.

> Is there by any chance spurious junk in a previously used NetSurf Cache?

No, I gave up using the disc cache, as it made everything very slow.

Best wishes,

Peter.

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