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Why is techcrunch.com taking 50+ seconds to fully load?

by empire29 on 10/28/10, 7:48 PM with 8 comments

  • by biznickman on 10/28/10, 8:19 PM

    I've had the exact same problem on allfacebook.com ... as that image illustrates it's Facebook's plugins in many cases (fbcdn.net is one of Facebook's content delivery networks). Definitely creates a problem when Facebook is busy claiming the value of Facebook's social plugins while simultaneously taking forever to serve them up.

  • by empire29 on 10/28/10, 7:58 PM

    Over the past few days i've noticed that when i go to techcrunch.com it takes 30,40,50 seconds before I can scroll the page smoothly.

    I looked at the http requests it makes and its pretty nuts (almost as bad as my company's intranet). Is anyone else experiencing this load latency? It happens on FF, Chrome and Safari on OS X 10.6

  • by alexknight on 10/28/10, 8:05 PM

    They're site loads all kinds of third party javascript which tends to slow the website down. A lot of these big sites like Techcrunch and Mashable tend to be a bit on the slow side. I also agree that forcing a auto-page refresh every minute is non optimal.

  • by johng on 10/28/10, 7:52 PM

    Has anyone else also noticed that Techrunch does full page refreshes at timed intervals as well? Very annoying but I'm sure it's good (though, frowned upon or should be) for pageviews and adviews?