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Why is Freesound so slow?
Freesound has gotten slower since the new rebrand. Can somebody actually bother to get rid of all the unnecessary bloated code that's riddled within this website's HTML so I can have a more fluent experience? I've wanted to ask this because I've noticed the absolute beef of latency that's current in this site before.
P.S, please don't delete this. I just need improvement.
Hi,
Sometimes there are server slowdowns which make the site less responsive, but Freesound is generally quite fast. Freesound development happens at a public university, and we unfortunately don't have resources to optimise every bit of the code. We do our best to make it fast and responsive and will continue to do so 
the freesound team
nchnvraudio wrote:
Freesound has gotten slower
If there are specific areas of freesound that are slow, please tell us which.
If you have the time, you can use for example the free trial of pingdom to track one example of the pages you have speed issues with for 2-4 weeks and share a report of the result here, so that it might help focus developing optimizations one day.
sabrinawitch wrote:
It's not slow.It's not even bloated.
What are you talking about? I click the "Sounds" button on the website and it takes 10 seconds to pull up the page. When you load up the website after a lot of time the UI builds up like it's got too much to work with.
If you're telling me that it's only happening on my end then you must have different connection speed on whatever routers you have.
nchnvraudio wrote:
I click the "Sounds" button on the website and it takes 10 seconds to pull up the page. [...] If you're telling me that it's only happening on my end then you must have different connection speed on whatever routers you have.
"Sounds" ( https://freesound.org/browse/ which redirects to https://freesound.org/search/?s=Date+added+(newest+first)&g=1 ) just took me 8 seconds to load. I agree that that page is usually quite slow, especially compared to the relatively decent homepage (around 1-2 seconds to load).
A first test via the previously mentioned site's trial function shows for the browse page:
Australia 9.24 s
Eastern Asia 9.01 s
Eastern US 6.63 s
Europe 6.69 s
Western US 7.42 s
While for the main page I see:
Australia 4.81 s
Eastern Asia 4.32 s
Eastern US 2.02 s
Europe 1.48 s
Western US 2.91 s
qubodup wrote:A first test via the previously mentioned site's trial function shows for the browse page:
Australia 9.24 s
Eastern Asia 9.01 s
Eastern US 6.63 s
Europe 6.69 s
Western US 7.42 s
I'm telling you, that is some slow loading time.
