Re: BBC sites very slow.

On 18 Dec 2014 Malcolm Hussain-Gambles <malcolm@paymentlabs.com>
wrote:

> An unashamed plug for my two apps - doesn't help netsurf though.
> Newsuk and weatheruk pull the data off the BBC. Available on the
> plingstore (free).

> Cheers

> Malcolm

Yes, I've got them both. I must remember the the weather one!

Peter.


> On 18 Dec 2014, Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:
>>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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