Who else finds HuffPo an increasingly slow to load website?

[ClusterFreak]

It may just be my computer, but Huffington Post is the only website I visit where everything just seems to come to a screeching halt. It certainly is top heavy with flash graphics, etc. Scrolling especially seems to be naggingly slow and hence quite irksome. I've noticed it to be a growing problem over the last few weeks or so, maybe longer.

Anyone else find this to be the case?

[billyoc]

1. It was always unusable to me.

[NYCGirl]

2. Nope. Loads very quickly. NT

[BlooInBloo]

3. Loads fine for me.

[glinda]

4. Loads slow for me. Have a Mac. It is worse now than ever.

[NYCGirl]

7. I have a Mac too, and it's loading very quickly. NT

[PM7nj]

5. HuffPo is way too bloated.

Always loads slow for me.

[lpbk2713]

6. They may have a lot of safeguards on that site ...

... to keep the freeper pranksters from doing anything malicious. That could slow things down.

[blogslut]

8. That site has a buttload of scripts

...and that auto-refresh crap that I despise.

Use Firefox with the NoScript plugin. That should help with the load times on HuffPo.

[ClusterFreak]

12. Firefox! Why didn't I think of that!

Good call!:toast:


(And yes...I hate that auto-refresh crap too...verrrrry irritating. I think that might have a TON to do with the problem)

[blogslut]

17. Be warned

Turning off scripts messes with the images. You'll see a lot of blank spaces where graphics used to be.

[ClusterFreak]

9. Sounds like a split decision...hmmmmm.

:dilemma:


on edit...seems like the yays have jumped out into a substantial lead!;-)

[Political Tiger]

10. Yes, I have the same problem.

It happened with my old computer and it happens now that I have a new computer, so I know it's not my computer. I have noticed that the site is easier to look at with Firefox than IE.

[G_j]

11. slow n/t

[spindrifter]

13. It's horribly slow.

[COLGATE4]

14. I can hardly use it now

As you say, it takes forever to load and change from one topic to another - really frustrating, and I have supposedly "high speed" cable. It's almost as slow as dial-up. Frustrating, for sure!

[canetoad]

15. Huffpo looks like the inside of a goat's stomach

Fucking yellow seeping all over the place. Useless quick reads. Try doing a browser search for a word. You cannot find it among all the highlighted crap spewed on the page. Obviously maintained by a drunken ADD webmaster on crystal meth.

[Lex]

16. Using Firefox + Adblock + Flashblock add ons

make it much, much better. Makes most sites much, much better.

[canetoad]

19. Ha, I already do

Hate to think what it looks like without them.

[ClusterFreak]

22. Thx...I'll have to give it a shot.

:hi:

[rrneck]

18. Way too much trouble to deal with

just to find out the latest on Brad and Angelina.

[arcadian]

20. Same as RawStory for me.

I used get my news primarily from RawStory, but it loads to damn slow.

[Saturday]

21. I rarely go there because it seems to freeze up my computer. nt