Re: BBC sites very slow.

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?

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David Pitt