Why is facebook so slow lately?

Why are normal users considered spammers?

HAMMER THEM !

Hammer time?

I am finding it to slow lately to, it is driving me nuts

this is making me feel sad

i am sooo sad too

Facebook is slow for a number of reasons. One of the biggest reasons that facebook is slow is because all of these ridiculous applications that people have made. like "what kind of animal are you" I mean seriously people we aren't in kindergarten anymore. When you have multiple applications like that it slows things down considerably. I'ts like having 1 person build a car. When they have to do everything by themselves, it takes a long time. Facebook's servers are not big enough to handle the load that is put on it by these applications as well as the growth they are experiencing. We should really get some type of petition started or talk to the facebook people themselves.

PJMollin1315 please shut up, all thos apps are there because its what people want, they are not slowing facebook down, facebook simply have to get more servers, with high bandwith. that way they can meet the demmand they have at the moment, facebook came out of nowhere going from 0 to hero, and they just didnt improvise enough to cope with the huge growth.

"It seems like the Facebook engineers add another javascript and css file to their pages with every new feature. As of today, viewing the Facebook homepage loads 36 javascript files from Facebook and 4 more from advertisers. In addition to these 40 files, there are 12 css files.

That’s a lot of files! If you’ve ever noticed the excessive flickering happening in your browser’s status bar when you go to Facebook, this is the cause.

How can they improve the situation? The total file size isn’t too terrible at about 100k of JS and 40k of CSS. The best thing to do would be to use a simple build script that concatenates all these files together into one larger file. If they can’t do that for some reason, they could at least serve the files from more than one domain to take advantage of parallel downloads in the browser. They could also try a service like Akamai, but that’s a bit more complex and expensive.

This seems like a really silly oversight from an organization that in general produces beautiful work. My guess is that when the company was getting started they set up a relatively simple build process that has now become ingrained and difficult to alter as their setup has quickly become larger and more distributed. However, they’ve reached the point where it’s time to revisit things and do it properly."

You retards ... here how it happens:

Applications = size

Bigger size = longer download time = more busy servers
Therefore, when few bilion people load up some 10MB page it takes more time, since its pushing on the servers.
And lets see what happens when there is LESS OR NO crappy applications.

Smaller pages = pages open faster = faster servers

Conclusion : when few bilion people download small size pages it forces the connection less.
It's not just about you ... it's about what everybody does on their pages and how many people open new pages on certain time period.
Facebook has high latency.

Solution 1: Don't add applications you dont need and spread the word.
Solution 2: Put all the crappy applications as you please BUT STOP complaining about the speed because you are part of the problem.
Solution 3: Facebook should get (buy or rent) better servers or better connections.
Solution 4: Facebook could limitate the number of applications that are allowed or / and set a size limitation for the applications.

And btw. .. on the pages, not all videos / pictures etc. are connected to Facebook. Those are links, which are connected to youtube or some other servers.

there you go

I'm new to facebook and I was just begining to enjoy all the features! Totally SUCKS!

i guess im joinin d club..i hav tried everythin poss ...its way tooooooooooo sleo frm my pc ! im sad...n frustrtated...!

Another problem I have with the level of intelligence of a large percentage of the populace of the internet, is their apparent lack of intelligence. I understand that a spelling or grammatical error will happen here or there but wen u tak liek thizz!!1!, you not only make yourself look like a fool, but you are just proving that you are part of this problem.

Facebook is slow lately because of the transition to the "new facebook".

Thanks wiigee, done that, it seems abit faster today, might have something to do with the GCSE results eupohoria being over too?