Who wants to help your pals at GRM with a website thing? (Video content inside.)

Awesome, thanks for the help.

You may or may not know that we have a Videos page. It's basically a place for us to share some of our favorite videos, and very soon you'll see a lot more added.

So, our big question: Is the Videos page loading okay for you, or does it seem a little slow?

Thanks.

(PS: If you'd like to nominate a video for that page, let us know.)

Hung a little at the beginning. Page sizing seems off.

Samsung note5, android, chrome, on a 200meg wifi connection.

it seems more than a little slow, at home on laptop with 50mbps wifi/cable connection

And for a reference, I'm using Safari w/an ethernet connection. It loads okay for me--not the fastest page in the world, but I wouldn't call it slow. I'm loading faster than Ed is.

pat, what browser are you using?

Took about 30-45 seconds here. Chrome, not on wifi.

I consider that very slow.

Loaded fine on my 100mb Wi-Fi, took a while on 4g.

Aside from size and space issues on the buttons and links, it looks fine.

Android 6.Something, chrome on an LG G5 with grm on the adguard whitelist.

In reply to mtn:

This is about the wait time I started seeing using Chrome, too. Which is why we were asking. Thanks, mtn.

Painfully slow. 45 seconds to see the BRZ with the wing.

And we're talking to our web guys, too. All of this input helps. Thank you.

sorry, chrome. any other video sites are pretty instantaneous for me

I would say that the page loads slow.
Win10Pro, Chrome on newer Lenovo ThinkPad laptop.

I just ran an internet speed test of 43 mbps on home wifi.

Once the page loads, the actual videos launch quickly when you click on them.

Also, slow load onto MotoX Pure, Android on Chrome and same home wifi.
Off home wifi and on VZ 4G caused what I would call the same (slow) load time.

Pretty slow for me, took around 25 seconds to completely finish loading, about 10 before I could start to scroll through. Chromium on Win10.

I can tell you why it's loading slow and it has nothing to do with the browser type, it's because there are many embedded videos on that page that are all loading at once. This opens many connections and takes a good bit of processing power on the client computer too. You'll see the same effect (on a smaller scale) in the "please stop embedding" thread. The solution might be to use some JS to only have the players load as the user scrolls close to them.

What GameboyRMH said. 30 seconds for me, and 13mb. No site should be 13mb.

Slow in Chrome with just one other tab open (gmail) on 100mps WiFi and Win10

Pretty slow with Firefox on Ubuntu Linux. Connection is gigabit ethernet to Comcast cable. My page loads are usually instantaneous, so it's slow.

Chrome, on a slow DSL connection at the office. 29 seconds till the videos loaded.

Hung up on my iPhone/safari. Kept getting a problem loading the page error

In reply to GameboyRMH:

Thanks Gameboy. Yeah we were planning on adding that feature with javascript. The weird thing was the page was actually loading very quickly on David's computer so I wanted to make sure this solution was actually helping everyone out.

We'll get to work. Thanks for the feedback everyone!

In Chrome on my Win7 PC it took 6 seconds to begin loading, another 2 to render the traditional content, then another 7 for the embedded videos to begin displaying.

I'm on a government line - 93.25Mbps up and 93.31Mbps down, Win7 with the latest Firefox. Very slow to load. 11 seconds after clicking your link, the page appears. At 45 seconds, I can clink a video and it plays. During this time, I can't page back or reload.

In reply to Apis Mellifera:

Sounds pretty typical for government. That is, specs look good on paper, no expense spared, but real world performance is disappointing.

24-seconds for the page to load & first vid to play. I'm on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, and speedtest is showing I'm pulling ~75-80mbs d/l presently. After the page loaded & I played the first vid, the others would play in < 1-second.

I turned off all of the stuff I usually use to make the web tolerable, and opened the developer pane in Firefox:

You've got a couple of 403 and 404 responses in there. I imagine a lot of this is not in your control. There was a lot of waiting for the /video page to load.

I'd maybe consider changing pagination and looking at response caching opportunties.

1988RedT2 wrote: In reply to Apis Mellifera: Sounds pretty typical for government. That is, specs look good on paper, no expense spared, but real world performance is disappointing.

and believe me, you don't want to see the bathrooms here...