The last few days this site has been so slow.I have cable and it has taken over 30 seconds for a new page to load.Doesn`t sound like much if your still using dial-up but it`s way slow for cable.Any one else notice it? It`s just this site for me.

It's not you Hammer, the site is running like a slug. Best as I can tell from firefox reports of what's loading on the page, the problem is all the off-site crap LNP pulls in from elsewhere, in particular the google adsense and the google analytics bot.

Talkback is actually the fastest area of the site at the moment. When I go to pull up a news page I now go get a fresh cup of coffee while it loads. And I have 320/320 DSL.

how do you get those stats and information about the loading speed?

I can only talk about firefox on mac osx, but as a page loads the status bar at the bottom of the browser displays the name of each item on a page as it is loaded. Normally on well-constructed page that loads normally it will flash by too quickly to really see, but when a loading page hits sludge you will see stuff like "waiting for max.lancasteronline.com..." or "loading adsense.google.com/djhfeiejmdm..."

You can also go on your firefox menu bar to "tools > Error console" and you will get a list of any errors that occurred when a page loaded, such as:



On this reply page alone there were like 25 errors, half related to google and the rest stemming from LOL's junky style sheets.

Every time the browser hits a command, reference or declaration in the page source that it can't resolve it slows the page load. In the case of LOL it happens 20-50 times on any given page.

It's running really slow for me as well. High speed DSL connnection seems as slow as my old dial-up...except for the header and all the ads...funny how that seems to load quickly.

must be all the nation wide activity looking for the drunken pirates

Not that it would do any good to complain, LNP is too busy building a convention center to run a newspaper and website!

Ebay is probably overloaded as well...I hear Mr. Goodbar cups are all the rage with high schoolers now.



Ironically, I spotted a bunch of pirate hats at the Bollman Hat Factory store this weekend. They also have tricorn hats, in case anyone's into that.