Re: BBC sites very slow.

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

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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