Snail pace portal

[#1]

Why is the user portal so damn slow to load and navigate. It must be one of the slowest sites I use. I know it's never been fast in the past but it's hardly a good example for new customers.

[#2]

My connection is usually fairly nifty but I totally agree with you about the portal - it's a nuisance having to wait for pages to load.

[#3]

must be unlucky mine tok about 3 secs to load, normal adsl

[#4]

it's been OK here too 

[#5]

fine for me to.
and thats on the adsl2+ trial so its nice change for somthing to be fine

[#6]

No, it is slow, plenty of others noticed too.

[#7]

i dont see it anotherone.
all pages why not signed in are taking 2 seconds and when signed in there taking 3-4 seconds max and that's even tickets which is normaly one of the pages that takes donkeys when things are not running right
any idea if it's a problem with just 1 gateway or somthing?

[#8]

Haven't queried whether it's gateway dependant, too many people over a broad spectrum of posts, many mentioning it in passing so to speak.

[#9]

I usually find that most pages within "my account" take a few seconds to load.

[#10]

The Portal has not been a good performer for a long time as many people report.  I've just got used to it being a bit sluggish compared with other comparable sites and generally don't notice it enough to get agitated about.  But I'd agree it could be improved.
Maurice

[#11]

On an 8M sync line going to the portal took 8 seconds. It is dire. It's been dire for at least 5 years.

[#12]

portal 3 seconds and 4 seconds after clearing my cache.
time to update those acorn computers of yours

[#13]

not logged in took 3 seconds to get a readable page and 8 second to complete

[#14]

Quote from: ASBO

portal 3 seconds and 4 seconds after clearing my cache.

Was that to readable page or complete download?
My times were the same as pierre_pierre's.

[#15]

complete download. ie8 on compatibilty mode
iam on 21cn and it about the only thing that does work at the mo on it
infact same times when not running on compat mode but i run the whole plusnet sites on compat mode other wise when iam writing this the scroll bar plays up