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Request Date : Tuesday, May 19th 2009 @ 11:33:00 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, May 19th 2009 @ 11:33:00 AM

sure you know but that is what is coming...

Yeah, I've got a couple thousand emails telling me roughly the same thing! Thanks, though.... The more information the better, especially with problems like this that are intermittent and difficult to reproduce.

This problem has been tracked down and should no longer be an issue.

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but FT has been VERY slow the last couple days, pages not loading, stuck "waiting" for the server to respond.

and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting.

I don't know if it is the code used on the ads or the ad servers, or what, but i would say that "painfully slow" page loading is a good description.

sometimes very slow.

and search isnt working.

To the second problem in the title, I believe that I recently have been associating the loading slowness with the amount of activity in the banner ads at the top and the right margin. Not the simple jerky worms, birds or gyrating figures. But the more it's like a full-blown television commercial, the more going on per page, and the more often it changes (e.g., different commercials page to page) the longer the reload of content here in the center. I mention it now because I now don't believe it's my imagination.

I would add that it's the case in other websites I use, as well -- particularly TripAdvisor. Maybe it has to do with the nature of travel advertisement, as compared with, say, script, or mobile phones that move up into your face, or gyrating mortgage people...

Thx

I have notified tech of recent slowness reports and they are investigating.

Brent
IB

FT is painfully slow today

more than painfully slow since 8:30am pst with numerous page time outs

Thx all -

We are looking at the DB now to get a handle on the speed. I will post as I learn more.

brent

Awful right now. Molasses uphill.

thanks ^ and what ever you did, it seems to be working just fine now

Thx for the update. We were experiencing some latency that has resolved however the problem seems to be intermittent so we will continue to monitor.

brent

Very slow and lurchy today.

I've been unable to access FT for most of the morning EST. It is coming back now, but running VERY slowly. Anyone else having trouble?