Topic: Site Too Slow

What I've noticed is that it attempts to redirect into unsecured http protocol instead of staying in https. And once it loads into https when forced, it goes veeery slow.

This happens to me recently on my trusted safari, and for some reason despite deleting the entire e621 cache, it only improved for a while before slowing down as usual. By the way, I still use other sites like wikipedia just fine with the exception of tagme.dev

Is this an account issue? This happens like for 1-2 weeks now.

I have this issue right now, can watch youtube and look at other sites perfectly fine. can't load properly on pc for e621

Same issue here. It's only e621 that's super slow for me. And it has been for a few weeks now.

karn said:
Same issue here. It's only e621 that's super slow for me. And it has been for a few weeks now.

It's been slow today, though it seems to be getting better now.

I literally started proxying favorite/vote additions, faking the initial response and running the actual request in the background because single requests were taking upwards of 4 seconds

Yeah. Site is definitely slow for me. And it's a site thing because my devices and internet work fine.

On my phone every other site works fine. My phone uses my Phone Data.

On my tablet every other site works fine. My tablet uses HotSpot Data generated by my phone.

I dunno what's causing the problem nor how easy or hard of a fix it'll be, am just saying my piece.

jerking off slower so as to match the site's speed and curb my disappointment

There's definitely a delay on comment votes and a shorter delay on post votes and favourites.

Every time I request another page, it takes an extra few seconds to load. Is big E6 stealing my info or something?(/J!!!)

iamonionfriend said:
Every time I request another page, it takes an extra few seconds to load. Is big E6 stealing my info or something?

...how do you go from slow loading times to stealing your info?

Looks like those upgrades have resolved this issue.

been extremely slow for me for the past few days now :/

slow for me too.

Somehow now I am also experiencing slow downs since the start of the new year.
Oddly enough, this doesn't happen with e926, which loads instantly without any issues.

EDIT: And now, it's completely fine again on PC but not on mobile. Both are on the same network.

It's actually getting quite bad now. I have to reload pages two or three times before the thumbnails will load fully, viewing the main page is impossible because it never loads and viewing even a 3mb image takes 4 minutes, and sometimes stops loading halfway.

Happens to multiple devices on any connection. Not sure what's causing it.

Site is pretty much unusable during US peak time (something around 8pm UTC). Is this some kind of selective throttling or is the site getting mass scraped by bots?

For me it's fine until I try to watch any kind of video. Even at sample quality it takes forever to load and slows my entire PC to a crawl for at least a minute. Every other site works fine.

Yes, it's slow for me too. I don't even get a response from static1.e621.net anymore. It's been going on for days.

smaugthedragon said:
Site is pretty much unusable during US peak time (something around 8pm UTC). Is this some kind of selective throttling or is the site getting mass scraped by bots?

American gooners ruining it for the rest of us.

It's been very slow for me for about two weeks with spurts of normal performance.

smaugthedragon said:
Site is pretty much unusable during US peak time (something around 8pm UTC). Is this some kind of selective throttling or is the site getting mass scraped by bots?

I've seen problems like this in the past in other sites and games and the culprit was throttling (possibly not intentionally but due to problems in the network/routers) at one of the nodes in the route. It's not a fault of the servers or any user's ISPs but a third or fifth party in the middle.

Likely a node inside the USA (maybe a border router if it affects mostly international users) that is operated by a internet backbone provider that isn't the ISP serving the site's servers, which makes it very difficult to diagnose because it happens intermittent, affects users unevenly (different routes depending where you're browsing from) and everything looks fine from the server's side.

Stuff like this can take months and months to get resolved because it's impossible for the average person to reach anyone at those internet backbone operators even if you have strong evidence. Eventually they change something on their own and it goes back to normal.

A possible path here would be for site admins to collect relevant evidence from users and start badgering the ISP/server host for a solution but even that is unlikely to go anywhere because it has to get through layers of ISP middlemen that don't give a fuck about it.

I'm currently overseas and I found that images and some other websites/direct connections (like remote home desktop access) that cross the Pacific ocean are slow or practically unusable. Until finding this thread, I didn't know that images weren't being served through Cloudflare, so it gave me an idea to try using Cloudflare Warp. With it enabled, the site and images load quickly as if I was at home. Not ideal having to rely on their VPN though.