chris i've noticed this with sites like bct and such as well and see
it still in leopard, 2.0gbz duo core, 1gb of ram, so i'm not sure what
to say
On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
ok, this is somewhat strange. I guess it kind a makes sinse, but,
just hear me out here, cause then again, not really.
Basicly, I am running Safari V3. It's the latest build. BTW, yes
guys, I finally am starting to get the hang of it. I'm kind a
forcing myself to use it more and more. In any rate: I am noticing
that web sites are taking for ungodly long to load. I mean, so much
so, it's almost like I'm on dialup if not worse.
It's absolutely pathetic!
For instance: blindcooltech.com
took almost five minutes literally speaking just to chime, and load
all the way.
acbradio.org took almost two minutes.
however other sites like say: google, or say, aol.com, or, o, I
dono, say, jfwlite.com, or yahoo.com
Come up almost instantly.
Not quite instantly but maybe within 10 or 15 seconds. It's still
slower than my comfort, but, it's certainly a big improvement from
10 minutes to load bct, or five mins actually, sorry. Seems like
ten though. LOL! Literalloy speaking? I've not timed it, granted,
but I'm assuming, in all realisticness, and in all literality, it's
probably taking five minutes. Now, here is the odd thing though.
It's not my internet connection. I have two other windows
machines. These pages load in less than a tenth of a second
nearly. literally I hit enter to load the page, and bam! It's up.
I got voice over set to automatically interact with html content. I
shut off the toolbar, and the bookmarks bar from the view menu in
Safari.
I also went under general in the Safari preferences, and told it to
start with a blank untitled page. I went into security, in the
Safari preferences, and disabled images from loading, and also
disabled java for the time being. Not java script. I still got
that enabled, but I disabled just plain oal Java. I also went in
the voice over utility and unchecked the box to group html content.
I was suspicious that it was likely that was slowing it down as it
had to think to process what needed to be grouped. Well all this
did! significantly speed things up, but it's still a little slow.
all other internet based programs though like Fire, Skype, Mail,
etc. work just fine though. no lag at all.
Now, having said all this: I know that I have a Tiger system Power
Mac G4 500MHZ, and I am running 1.5GB of S D Ram. I'm wonderring,
if the processer being so slow, is causing it to take so long. I
did a trace route, and that looked fine. I even pinged google and
that also looked just fine. there was no packet loss. I had Time
Warner look to see if the HF signal was too high, or too low, and
the DB level on the line looks fine. Also a ping to my modem showed
no packet loss. the amount of hops in the trace route report looks
fine. So does the time over those hops. This is almost thus,
leading me, being that I connected my modem directly to my other
pc's and also went through my router, and in both senarios, they are
a lot faster than the Mac. The Mac is showing the exact same ping
and trace route results. everything looks good, to wonder, if this
may be an issue with my slow processer. I kind a doubt it though,
as if that was the case, wouldn't all my other applications, be
slow? I know some apps take higher threading priority than others,
but, that still doesn't really fully answer my question. I'm just
trying to pinpoint down why this is happenning. I seem to recall in
Safari 2, before I updated, that I had this same issue.
Anyway, any help would be wonderfully appreciated. Yes, I have done
software update. All is perfectly up to date and fine.
Yes I did clear my history, and my cache.
Chris.
