Per my post yesterday A note about WUWT fonts, readability, etc I’m going to try turning off the Google ads for a few hours. Those that have had font display issues, please advise if this cures the problem. Then I will know what to report to wordpress.com technical support. – Anthony
UPDATE: as of 4PM PST I’ve turned ads back on – those who reported problem cleared up when ads were off, please advise if the problem returns – Anthony
UPDATE2: 6PM PST OK Google ads are the problem, thanks to everyone who provided feedback. I’ve advised wordpress.com tech support. In the meantime the simple solutions you can do are:
- Run Internet Explorer in “compatibility mode”
- Use FireFox or Chrome, which are superior (and free) browsers
I chucked IE long ago, and I advise everyone to do the same.
the problem with the stock Android browser (that was mentioned a few times above) is back
Pompous Git
I don’t find WUWT a slow load.I have ADSL 2,and WUWT loads in no time for me?I’m in Tassie also.
As mentioned, testing with AdBlock off. This page loading fine, no problems.
Front page is a mess, but has been for awhile. Maybe I get served a “special” version on dial-up, but it only really loads part of the posts, gets done, when I scroll down I briefly see the smiley face which is supposed to load last after everything else successfully loads, which is quickly replaced with a little square as the loading of more posts starts with a page divider line between the chunks. This apparently never finishes, there is no “older posts” link, just another square below with more older posts to load.
With AdBlock off, the front page loads as described. Until I get to the square, then something kicks it off the front page to an infinitely-(non)loading white page I figured out is the wyciwyg “What You Cache Is What You Get” alternative, requires going Back to get to the front page even though the address bar doesn’t change. Apparently conflict with add-ons can trigger it. With AdBlock on it doesn’t happen, thus a conflict with the Google Ads is indicated.
I was gonna suggest it all started with the missing “Recent Comments”, yet our benevolent webmaster trashed that theory 🙂
On your site with the google ads on hangs my android up on a pop up, ” reliable energy systems” I have to exit your site then go back on , then the ad is back in about 10 seconds I cant find a exit button on the add so I have given up visiting your site with my android phone
Thanks for the effort Anthony.
Ads do take bandwidth, and may come from various sources which adds risk.
Worst I saw was a website naiively coded to display the PayPal logo served form PayPal’s site rather than as a locally-served graphic with a link behind it. For some reason the feed from PayPal was often very slow, thus her page loaded very slow.
However, Tips&Notes has often been slow due volume of messages, and sometimes comment entry there or on article pages is very slow, but no corrupted font problem.
Now, can you charge WordPress for your troubleshooting time? Well, since you are gettng n/c service from them I suppose not. 😉
Host: Use FireFox or Chrome, which are superior (and free) browsers …
Cough – cough … what about Opera? Cough – cough …
Can’t we use Opera which has demonstrated itself to be ‘superior’ as well*?
Cough – cough …
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(* A relative term, all contrasted w/MS IE; comparison based on running versions of Opera on this end from version 6 on a 500 MHz Pentium III under Win98SE through to Opera version 11 under Xp SP3 on Intel “Core 2 Duo” based PCs …)
Still having a problem with the site using my phone browser (I have no idea what browser it is, it has a blue and white globe icon). The computer browser IE is okay.
Never have a problem.
I use Firefox.
Opera is also free.
I get text overlay for the appendix table in GISS miss. Using latest Firefox with Adblock, XP Pro SP3.
Screen capture of problem uploaded here
http://imageshack.us/f/140/wuwterror.jpg
Problem has returned but Compatibility View fixes it after several clicks.
M
IE is not a bad browser, please stop knocking it! Here’s a test: if you have hundreds of favourites like me you have to do a lot of scrolling to get to the right one. Now in IE when you want to select another favourite it remembers where you were in the list and the chances are this is near where you want to select the next one. With Chrome and FF they start at the top again so you have to scrol all the way down again! Grr. For this alone I do not like Chrome or FF, to me they’re clunky to use and not very user friendly. No, it’s IE for me!
I run Opera and have never had a problem with this site. Actually I can’t think of any sites I have had a problem with recently.
Fonts fine on this page but on the newer pages they are small.
After posting that they went small on this page!
I am not going to post all day but now they are big again! Is posting causing the problem to toggle on and off?
Seems so …small again.
Bye
Your HTML is very broken, as evidenced by running through the W3C validator, so it’s unsurprising that browsers are having issues. As much as people love to blame IE, it’s “compatibility mode” basically forces it to act like IE6 to accomodate websites that don’t follow HTML standards so if people need to enable it to view your site, your site is broken.
“Use FireFox or Chrome, which are superior (and free) browsers”
Most computer magazines do tests on browsers and it seems that which one is “better” changes from day to day and depends on the criteria. The (by far) biggest german magazine had IE in first place last year! Chrome was the fastest, though, but the other two have improved since then. But they also consider security etc.
The whole thing get much more complicated when add-ons are included.
Since there is little difference in use, and all are free, it is best to have all aviable, and change to a different one when a problem arises.
Just back on tonight. And back to compatibility
wrong again
IE 9 and my Google/Android cell both work fine, but then I never had a problem. I’ve tried toggleing between compatibility mode on/off and see no difference.
Wow, I agree that the bookmark feature on Chrome sucks, but other than that, it is far superior. I have to use IE for work, and when I get back to Chrome, it is like coming up for air.
From rbw152 on March 12, 2012 at 1:28 am:
Huh? I run Iceweasel, the Debian Linux Firefox variant. I don’t have “favorites,” I have bookmarks. Instead of a giant unsorted list I have bookmark folders and sub-folders. Some have so many bookmarks in them that scrolling may be necessary. They hold their position at where I left them before.
When I click on Bookmarks in the tool bar, I do get a long unsorted list. But that’s normal command toolbar action, the long list is under all the commands and under the bookmark main folder list. It has to start displaying from the top to show the commands. For me, the long unsorted list just tells me I should get around to thinning out the junk ones and filing away the good ones.
Seriously, you put up with a “favorites” list of hundreds of entries, and are grateful for the “advantage” of not having to scroll through it from the top every time? How long have you been suffering under the forced-at-purchase M$-IE regime that you find that to be so spectacularly wonderful?