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Resolved Question

Site is messed up.

Mar 26, 2014 10:06AM PDT

This site loads slow on Windows. It always loaded slow, but now it loads even slower. Like 5 times slower.

It's hard to find the videos.
I'm looking for that new show with Shannon. I can't find it.

I use a podcast manager to watch podcasts.
It hasn't updated in a few days. And it's not the podcast player. Other shows updated.

And cnet update, I subscribe to the HD feed.
It looks like it was showing the SD feed.

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Too many scripts
Mar 27, 2014 12:39AM PDT

There are no less than sixteen domains all running scripts on the cnet homepage, and well over twenty domains running scripts on any given article. That's just insane.

Every time your browser has to get a .js file from some other server, it's going to slow down. If it has to wait for that script to fetch another .js file from another server (and then for that script to go get yet another .js or two from yet another server or two), it going to slow down even more.


It could be worse, though. NBC News's site heavily tends to just whitescreen if any of a few critical scripts break or are blocked. At least CNET vaguely resembles an actual website when its javascripts go bad or gone.

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Why
Mar 27, 2014 2:10AM PDT

Do they need all these js?

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No.
Mar 27, 2014 12:07PM PDT

If you're using NoScript in Firefox (or similar, for other browsers), you'll need only enable these:

cnet.com and cbsistatic.com, if you need to log in.
plus also cbsi.com, if you're in the forums.
plus also googletagservices.com, livefyre.com, and fyre.co, if you need to view or add comments.

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On windows rt
Mar 27, 2014 11:38PM PDT

I'm talking about Windows RT.

On my desktop, it doesn't really matter. I take 2 seconds to load the site.
On RT, it takes about 10 seconds to fully load it.

Why did they change it anyway. I can't find the article it. If you know the link, can you post it.
I just know that they wanted to put the uk and the .com under one site.
But couldn't they have done that with a simple redirect.

This site still needs some work. All of the videos, should be under the video section. With their own label.

This is how their video should be characterized. The way cnet has the videos right now. I don't know what worser, cnet, or youtube.

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I don't know why.
Mar 27, 2014 11:41PM PDT

Links aren't working. When I said This is how their video should be characterized. I'm talking about twit.tv.
It's nice and clean. Easy to find anything.

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This site needs to be fixed
Mar 28, 2014 11:15AM PDT

Loads so slow on Windows RT.
There was nothing wrong with this site before. I don't see why they had to do anything.
How long did they even spend working on this.

Where do I even go to complain about. I know no one is in here reading this.
And who ever redid this site, gotten paid. Why would you pay someone for messing up a perfectly good function site.
This is worser then the gawker redesign that they did years ago.

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Still loaded slow.
Apr 3, 2014 6:58AM PDT

Cnet is still loading slow on RT.
It needs to be fixed.

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I see you are in 2 threads at least.
Apr 3, 2014 7:01AM PDT
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Not DNS
Apr 3, 2014 9:02AM PDT

It has nothing to do with DNS.
OK, almost all websites on tablets. But this site slowed down a lot after the redesigned.
So what if I'm in 2 threads. Why does it mater.

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Duplication of effort that's why.
Apr 3, 2014 9:04AM PDT

When folk dismiss an idea out of hand you give them time to reconsider. For me it sped it up. There are tomes about ISP DNS speeds. But your choice.

Good luck and hope they fix it for you.
Bob

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Not a dns issue.
Apr 3, 2014 11:37AM PDT

All this started happening after cnet upgraded the site last week.
So, it's them, not me.

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Then report it and see if they can do better.
Apr 3, 2014 11:39AM PDT

While I can explain how a better DNS can help, some folk won't try. Good luck and let's hope it gets better.
Bob

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I know what dns is
Apr 3, 2014 1:00PM PDT

I what DNS is. Like I said twice before. This site has been loading slow since last week when the site was updated.

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Sadly no WinRT here.
Apr 3, 2014 3:47PM PDT

It's just fine here, even on the droids.
Bob