Sitepoint slow

Yes I agree… If one is able to offset their loading until after the page has rendered then it might greatly alleviate the problem. The thing is anything that requests external resources from the head of the HTML page is prone to greatly delay page load, hanging on a white screen as it fetches the resource

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It appears as though the test is for the home page and not the forum?

This looks better

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Created with NodeBB three months ago.

https://forums.opera.com/topic/22795/new-opera-forums-launched

Edit:
Replaced incorrect link

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I assume the site admins must have changed something as if you look at the screenshot in #11 there were two items taking 25 seconds each on the forum.

EDIT You must have checked the forum main page @Mittineague try this thread page. There are still two “polls” taking 25 seconds each. The page loads in 3.94 seconds according to Pingdom but it does not return the completed results until much later.

The "poll"s are the “live update” feature.

AFAIK they fire every 30 seconds and are AJAX - promise.

I thought they were like “ask if there is anything new, and if there is, send the JSON back when ready”

I haven’t looked deep into the code involved, but it looks like the client continues waiting when there is nothing new and only completes either after 30 seconds when the next fires or when a change has been returned. I’m guessing the server could return a “nothing new” to have it end sooner but that the savings are considered insignificant or have been overlooked.

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I went off the URL in post #1

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Out of interest I have just had a 503 error for about the last 5min:

503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.

Just for information @chrisofarabia that was the error on the page when I tried to visit the forums - a generic one for the domain I assume.

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Hi, Rubble. I had the same error for about 5 mins or so. It seems to be back now.

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