Maggie's Farm

Off topic, and please feel free to remove this after you read it. (I have no email address for you guys.)

I am finding that your site takes an inordinately long time to load, and I have a 3-month-old, well-maintained 'loaded' MacBook with a fast WiFi connection. Sites vary in their load time, but though yours is not especially graphics-heavy it takes longer to load than most slick, big Flash sites I visit.

Moreover, the site sputters while loading. That is to say, I get an indication it's fully loaded in my RAM, and then a fresh indication that loading is still incomplete. While this goes on, my browser (mostly Safari) is inoperative.

The evidence in toto suggests that what's happening is some script that is lagging behind. It may be Java or something else.

For example, this complex site loads much faster than yours:
http://www.superherohype.com/

Of course, I may be wrong about all this. Maybe it's me. I suggest you ask your readers if they are experiencing something along these lines. If so, you may want to address it, as it is certainly costing you readers. My experience is that your site, not the many others I visit, is the prime culprit.

This may possibly be a problem that PJ media has visited upon you. I noticed similar loading problems, though maybe not quite as severe, when I used Instapundit as my home page. Insty was a snap to load until PJ started running heavily script-dependent ads on that site. (I may be on the wrong track though... I don't see any PJ ads on your site today.)

FWIW, my own site has loading issues. But that's because I wrote my CSS code myself, and I am NOT a programmer. (I recently hired a real programmer to help me assemble a new site, and rid me of my spaghetti-and-meatballs code. I know my limits.)

Just wanted to give you a heads-up. I could be all wet about this - as I say, I am no programmer.

Maybe it's just me. I've had this problem since I discovered the site. I'd assume it was me, if it wasn't for the fact that it loads slower than any other site I visit.

I'll try some other browsers and defrag my disc and report back. Sometimes a site just doesn't like Safari.

I'm seeing well over 10 seconds. The site hangs on me. One thing: RELOADING is a different issue. It looks like if the scripts (it CAN'T be graphics) are cached, the site loads quickly. But if I bring the browser from a dead stop, such as after a system restart, I get the hang. It just goes on and on, I mean it's really bad. For me, anyway.

Hey, but if this is just me, that's fine. One thing about website design I DO know is that the experience one gets is not consistent across platforms (Mac/PC) or browsers. I myself like to get feedback from different users, that's why I started this.

It is also possible that ONLY people with no problems loading Maggie will respond to this kind of survey. The ones having real problems... well, they're just not here, are they?

Hopefully it's just me and it's something I can fix.

"I have problems loading this site also."

AHA!

You know, they called me MAD at the Academy...

That's because Chertoff speaks for himself. And also because of what Meta said. And two duck eggs.