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the website is too slow

it takes me like 20 second to fully load a thread sometime



even my avatar which should be cached takes forever to load... can you guys figure this out? Buy Zemomarks / Chromatic Partyhats safely here

23-Mar-2020 03:38:39

a lot of the bottleneck is this player details script



this is a refresh of this exact thread, where I am the only person who has posted on it. it takes 6 seconds to load some meta data about a single player. no offense but 6 second response time is insane.

6 second response time is best case scenario. in bigger threads with multiple users it's even slower, sometimes 8 seconds. what the heck

for many years this script used to fetch the player titles to display under our avatar. that has been broken for years now. now you might guess that was dropped because of performance reasons, but actually the script is even slower now? hello?

what's going on with jagex web development? I can't think of any actual improvements to site in years and all we're getting is slower and slower to the point that it is basically unusable. Buy Zemomarks / Chromatic Partyhats safely here

23-Mar-2020 03:43:44 - Last edited on 23-Mar-2020 03:48:41 by Immortalized

23-Mar-2020 10:43:07

23-Mar-2020 19:08:31 - Last edited on 23-Mar-2020 19:53:41 by Hmm

It is absolutely a Jagex side issue. You can see its blocking for nearly 6 seconds on the right, the exact same script as Immortalized now, where my main issue used to be the avatar cachebusts months ago. These are still fairly heavy, but no longer the rate determining step.



You can see the majority of the time is spent on waiting, I.E, the browser absolutely would love to recieve data, but the server simply won't send it. This is not an ISP issue.

I can appreciate people saying what basically summounts to "it works for me", and its great if it does work for the majority of people. But deflecting this back at the people who have the fault is just ignoring the problem. It is absolutely a systematic issue that has gone on for months on Jagex's end.

24-Mar-2020 17:45:29 - Last edited on 24-Mar-2020 17:46:34 by Hmm

24-Mar-2020 22:54:38 - Last edited on 24-Mar-2020 22:56:41 by Hmm

25-Mar-2020 00:00:31 - Last edited on 25-Mar-2020 00:46:40 by Immortalized

sorted as slowest time last; this is on a "good day" (if you can call it that) when it takes 3s

here is the specific script isolated and benchmarked



I'm also very suspect about avatars requiring latency in the first place. if caching is designed correctly, these should not incur any latency.

instead, the browser always fetches, gets a 302 redirect, then either downloads or uses disk cache. the pointless fetch adds up. other things like background images load instantly. these are much bigger than avatars. it is crazy to see huge background images render instantly, but my same avatar I see on every page is always invisible for a few seconds until it loads.

that is total nonsense. like, does anyone at jagex even acknowledge this because it completely baffles me. I'm really not convinced anyone is really addressing the performance issues of this website and it's just becoming progressively harder to use, especially internationally


also, some food for thought, hypothetically if this script for whatever reasons loads slower when querying the details of specific users, then yes, your experience may be totally different than someone else unless you always post on the same thread as them. since the bottleneck of the script would always be when loading a specific problem-user's details, it would always take slower for that individual everywhere on the entire forums, whereas your average page time would be much different since you are not a problem-user Buy Zemomarks / Chromatic Partyhats safely here

25-Mar-2020 00:12:55 - Last edited on 25-Mar-2020 00:38:30 by Immortalized