Strange looking

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

Sometimes when loading the page I obtain an ugly looking. Do anybody know why?

Kind regards.

 

[AllenB]

Have your pages been slow to load lately?

 

[Mooly]

I used to get that on Vbulletin and usually the cause was a DNS issue. If I recall correctly the page pulls layers from various sources.

Try changing the DNS settings on PC to use Google or Open DNS and see if it fixes it. Takes seconds to do.

https://www.techworm.net/2016/08/change-default-dns-google-dns-fast-internet-speeds.html

https://www.howtogeek.com/767564/how-to-change-dns-servers-on-windows-11/

 

[Jason]

https://files.diyaudio.com/forums/images/smilies/checked.gif

Hmm

Looks like the CDN is out of action. Let me look into it.

 

[Jason]

Try now 🙂

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

If it helps, I am using Android on a Samsung A10 core. Usually it happens only at first loading of the page, and reloading it solves the problem. However it appears sporadically, say, a couple times a day. Appended is some data about my phone in Spanish. If more info is needed, ask me again.

 

[PRR]

Looks like the CDN is out of action. Let me look into it.

Jargon. For non-web-geeks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/what-is-a-cdn/

To save time, dynamic content (news, postings) has to be managed on the main server, but 'static' content like headers and icons can be hosted "near" the user. I see the main diyaudio server in Toronto Canada. But it is possible the small/static files are served from Boston, much closer to me. Somehow the Web knows which is what. CloudFlare, 2nd link above, does a lot of this Content Delivery work.

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

Thanks for the explanation. I declare myself a complete ignorant in these topics. I'm a laboratory rat with oscilloscope, tubes, MOSFET, components and solder. But no idea on programed things.

 

[Jason]

Sorry! Sometimes you get so used to hearing or thinking a term you forget it's not a lay term.

The server is in Houston, TX. But if you're in Maine, and seeing Toronto, that's likely because Cloudflare is serving you up content from that node.

We were previously using MaxCDN for some static files (like smilies), evidently they have closed down, I have switched everything now over to Cloudflare. Some tweaks to do in the future but for now things should be working fine.

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

I'm in Buenos Aires, Argentina. More details at;
http://aprs.fi/lw1dse

A link to my house's location in aprs. (An extension of google maps for ham radio services).

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

Have your pages been slow to load lately?

Sometimes. I have the service from a local internet provider called Telecentro. Its cheap but its service is from mediocre to really bad. But I have no job and actually I can't go for a better one.

Also I had other strange behaviour. Some days ago I posted some words in a thread and misteriously appeared posted in other thread. Mooly helped me a lot deleting the wrong post and then I had to repost it in the thread I really want. We dialogued about it by PM.

As suspicion of virus in my device, I run AVG free AV but nothing wrong was found.

 

[AllenB]

I'm hoping the site issues are fixed now. In any case, I decided to look at the rate needed to load these pages. I have a screenshot here of first loading my watched threads list and then this page. This is much less than my connection is capable of, in fact it is not much more than what I used back when I used dial-up some 20 odd years ago.

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

Ha ha ha. I remember the USRobotics modem 56K and its tipical springing sound on my windoz95 and 0600 free internet connections. Good old times.

 

[Citizen124032]

It also happens with Firefox too sometimes. Reloading sans cache solves these. Meeting standards issues?

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

My apologies for the recurrency, but I am also viewing that avatars in the main page also takes too long (sometimes over ten seconds) to complete its final appearance. Again, I'm ignoring if is the same or different issue.

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

I checked speed on the wifi net. Is this good enough?

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

Still another test in the same device in the same place as before.
Hoping it would be of help.

 

[Mooly]

If you are using your ISP's own DNS then a try a different one such as Google. You will have to look up how to do it on Android but it should be similar to Windows.

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

Thanks Karl. Let me search how to do this.
Kind regards.

 

[Mooly]

OK, good luck.

These are the numbers for Google and Cloudflare.

Google Public DNS IP addresses

The Google Public DNS IP addresses (IPv4) are as follows:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

The Google Public DNS IPv6 addresses are as follows:
2001:4860:4860::8888
2001:4860:4860::8844

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Cloudflare DNS:

For IPv4:
1.1.1.1
1.0.0.1

For IPv6:
2606:4700:4700::1111
2606:4700:4700::1001