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Performance is terrible
Seems like the MTC received an update overnight, and performance is now terrible. At least for me, are others seeing the same? Part of the issue might be that pagination seems to now return quite mor...
Allen
Community Manager
Community ManagerHi all,
We have done some extensive testing with the new UI and think we have now worked out the kinks. It went live a few minutes ago and we are monitoring its performance.
Please do let us know about anything that’s not quite right.
Allen
We have done some extensive testing with the new UI and think we have now worked out the kinks. It went live a few minutes ago and we are monitoring its performance.
Please do let us know about anything that’s not quite right.
Allen
Sorry to let you know, but I'm experiencing severe slowdowns again. Pages sometimes take minutes to load - if they load at all. I had to refresh this page 3 times to be able to post a reply.
My avatar while loading:
Hi, I suggest clearing your browser's cache, Windows updates can also cause this,
For me MTC - acceleratedDeleted
It happened to me this morning when I started with a clear cache (my browser is set to clear the cache on exit). But performance appears to be OK now.
- AllenHi all,
Thanks for the continued feedback, our dataset for release is almost complete, I am pleased to report that the majority of users should in fact find pages are loading quicker than they did before by a whole 0.5 seconds.
Why only the majority of users? well the components of the site use a caching system which means that when you request a page to load it doesn't always run off to the back, run a database query and populate the data for you and then display the results. Some data is stored in the sites cache, especially large data sets like message lists and this data will be pulled from the cache until the cache expires.
When the cache expires (which varies by component) one user will experience a slower page while the database query completes. Because each cache has different expiry (message lists have 1 minute cache, whereas the top contributor component has a 30-minute expiry) it's highly unlikely that the same user will always be called upon to be the person who refreshes the cache.
We will keep monitoring but so far I am happy with how the site is performing and hopefully you will all be enjoying the filters that are designed to make it easier to find content your looking for.