Site is too slow

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Hey buckd,

Sorry to hear that you're finding the site too slow - it's something that we are aware is an issue. In the past month or so we have worked really hard at cutting the time it takes for pages to load - many are now loading two times faster than they were before.

We realise that on the whole, the speed could still be improved though and this is something we are working on right now. Improving site performance is one of our biggest focuses at the moment, so rest assured we are working at making it faster!

Hopefully you should find that the site is a bit faster today, compared to when you initially wrote this post, as we were experiencing some problems over the weekend.

Let me know if you have any questions :)

Emily.

First time to your site and it is sloooooooooowwwwwwwwww!!!!! You need more power or no one will ever come back and you will fail!!!!

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Dead Slow Site!!.

Hi buckd and janesolanow,

I just wanted to add my two cents here as one of the people working on the technical side of the site. As Emily mentioned we've had some problems with the site's speed over the past few days which we're working on fixing right now. Hopefully things should be back to normal very soon.

Regards,

Phil.

the site still feels really really slow. To the point I switch tabs whilst the pages load in the background.

The site performance is really slow, and have seen others mention this as well. It's painful when looking through the site.

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Site very slow throughout site.

Hey guys,

Apologies for the recent issues with site speed - we've had a lot of things running in the background over the past week that have affected the performance. Things should be a bit better now, and in March we will be working again on making things as fast as possible!

Thanks for bearing with us :)

The site is faster than it was, but still too slow. An example is this link: http://www.songkick.com/festivals/991...

I'm using Google Chrome (5.0.342.1 dev) - I'm literally using the site less because of the slow page loads.

Glad to here you've noticed a slight improvement... as I said above, now we're in March, we're back working on improving the site speed again!

Thanks for bearing with us, things should gradually get better as the month goes on :)

Many other sites have gone through this transition recently. Reddit.com just converted from using memcachedb to Apache's Cassandra and everything is blazing fast now and it took less than a week to switch.

The site is awesome tasty fast now. Much much better!

I'm a new user and experiencing some speed issues still. Seems a great service so far though, just would be nice if it was a little more responsive.