K2

Anyone else getting frustrated with this website being painfully slow to load. I'm getting to the point where it is so frustrating to use that it's almost not worth trying to get on. I have Comcast cable high speed and do not have trouble with other websites but for some reason this one is a real PITA!! Is there a cure???

warrenmj

I also have Comcast high speed internet and don't have any problems at all.

vwtdi

I have Comcast high speed, no problems.

rtruman

Got to be on your end reload on different link

Railroadman

No problem here at all.

J T

I haven't seen a speed complaint for some time. It might or might not be your Internet. It could also be your computer having a high CPU load issue with certain media.

tomy62

Hi Klaus. I had similar issues but wife cured it. I was using an iPad that was about 5 years old and she gave me a new one last Christmas. Fixed everything! Now no waiting so it could indeed be a hardware issue. I use AT&T but a high speed wi-fi connection here at home. It's the same wi-fi with the old iPad so I think it's more than just the speed of the connection. Good luck with it. BTW, I still love my 16 inch steering wheel!

The Batman

I stopped visiting here regularly because, with all the auto-loading pop-up ads and videos, the user experience was excruciating and annoying.

Now, I've got a fresh, out-of-the box i7-7500 with 16GB RAM laptop equipped with a high performance SSD HD, and it's amazing how this site brings it to its knees. I know ads keep the site going, but less video and animation, less razzmatazz would go a long way in pleasing visitors, instead of punishing them, and driving them away.

Thanks for reading.

J T

i5-6300 with 8GB and SSD here. Though that's not telling the full specs.

To say that this site brings down my machine to its knees would be overly dramatic. Yes the task manager shows spikes on this site as it does on other popular sites - like YouTube, Yahoo, etc.

But there's also many other variables. Aside from the fact that one SSD isn't going to perform like another SSD, things like what browser you're using, any plugins being used, how many tabs in the browser is open, the ads that are being delivered, the editor being used, how many open tasks and background tasks are running on the same machine to also include the security protection you may or may not be using, can all have a part as all that uses resources.

The Batman

Thanks for the reply. The i7-7500 16GB RAM SSD-equipped laptop I mentioned before is running Windows 10 Home and I use the Chrome browser for CorvetteForum.

On any website with threaded discussion, I'll visit a listing of threads, then open interesting individual threads in new tabs, typically opening three to a dozen new tabs at a time. With the 60 Mbps typical connection speed I get at home and at friends and family households, the CorvetteForum slows down considerably as each new tab gets video ads and other in-page pop-ups.

Honestly, I make this comment with no malice, this iteration of CorvetteForum is what reminded me to activate AdBlocker. I know that's not nice to hear, that some advertising is blocked because advertising is essential to keeping the website going, but otherwise the site is intolerably slow, and I won't visit it, at all.

An experiment I ran just now:
Run #1
Load CorvetteForum Off-Topic webpage.
Pick 4 threads, open them in new tabs.
Check task manager, CPU usage is 100%.
After 10 minutes, the new tabs are still not loaded.

Run #2
Activate AdBlocker.
Load CorvetteForum Off-Topic webpage.
Pick same 4 threads from previous run, open them in new tabs.
Check task manager, CPU usage is 100%.
In under two minutes, the new tabs are loaded.

Please don't consider this whining or complaining. I'm just offering some (unsolicited, but hopefully useful) feedback. Thanks.