FiddyP beats Google and Yahoo to the top!
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I noticed a new referrer in my stats the other day and it seems I am above google.com and yahoo.com on the popular sites page of Internetsupervision.com!
This probably came about because I stumbled my results page of internetsupervision, if you don’t know, internetsupervision is a very useful site that tells you how long your page takes to load from all over the world.
An ideal tool for tweaking your website and the reason why I took the blogcatalog widget off the blog, with it on, it took a minimum of 10 seconds and sometimes up to 60 for this page to load. Without it, the loading time is under 5 seconds from everywhere, including Chile and China!
It’s nice to know I beat the big guys at something 
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September 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
My blog loads in less than 4 seconds in all locations where it was tested, but the result is “unavailable” in China.
Could it be that *I* am banned in China? ;->
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
hehe, I don’t think so, China sometimes drops off the list of points available so probably that machine was down.
..unless you’re really controversial over there?
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
[...] the site test it from various part of the world. The website is InternetSupervision.com (Thanks to FiddyP blog). Below is the test [...]
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I am loading at an average of a little over 1 second. I knew it was worth it to get all those nasty third party plugins that just slows down your load time.
BTW, China is not on my list either.
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September 23rd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Hmm! Can it be that we are both on China’s black list? Oh girl, we rock!
And I noticed that my feed didn’t show up in my first comment here, but thought Andy had it off for some test.
What’s wrong with my feed!!
Help! Please!
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
test mira
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September 23rd, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I just entered your web address Lalla Mira and it came up with your last post so my guess is that it’s taking too long to read your feed, maybe your shared hosting server is busy so that’s why it’s not showing up sometimes
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Oh I see! But that’s not good.
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September 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Hey! Now it showed up immediately!
Lalla Mira’s last blog post..Bloggers’ Peace Day
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:01 pm
i was considering showing a message to say it had timed out but it looked a bit naff on the end of the comment.
maybe I need to add a bit saying why it might not show in the text below the comment form?
what do you think?
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 pm
I guess there is no need to add that, for me at least.
Thanks!
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September 23rd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
I see that you use a feedburner link, they must get quite busy with so many people using their service so it might get busy now and again.
to you and me browsing there it just means 5 more seconds to wait until we see it but for the script that’s too long to wait so it just returns back rather than hanging around too long.
I think we can live with it! I was looking at how to implement AJAX into the viewer side of the blog and thought about using an updating AJAX message telling the user the status of the feed parse but I can’t find a way to add an ‘onclick’ event to the post comment button.
maybe I can use a filter to see what happens directly after the form is submitted, there might be a chance to call another routine to use ajax to display the status..
or.. maybe a fade box after the comment has been posted saying success or fail on feed parse.. haha, that might be the best way, I’ll work on it for this week and use that to take it to version 1.0
yey, some geekery to do this week when I should be working!
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Oh…. That sounds technical to me.
But as you said, you go for some geekery!
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September 24th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Dear Andy
How about easynet. net hosting ? Do you have the good impression ?
I am very glad to be able to receive your kind attentions !
Miss Yuki
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September 24th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Hi Andy,
Great find. I copied you to see if it will help me. I also stumbled and dugg this post. You are the man!
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September 24th, 2007 at 5:27 am
LOL!!! Lalla Mira, I’m always on some blacklist one way or another. So, why not China’s
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September 24th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Lalla Mira, I see your feed’s working here…. hmmmmm……
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September 24th, 2007 at 10:58 am
chessnoid: thanks! it’s a useful service and a little bit sneaky way of some extra links. I have another gem I’ll post about today
muesli junkie: I use heart internet hosting, it’s not bad, it does everything I need it to do and seems to handle all the traffic well. the support is excellent, tickets are always answered quickly and with concise information.
September 25th, 2007 at 1:02 am
Funny thing Sharon, my feed shows in the second comment every time I write around. Just about time it arrives. *rolls eyes*
September 25th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Sharon, Mira: I’ll try some fiddling with the code to see whats going on for Mira’s feed but my gut feeling is that it’s just a timeout happening.
I’m busy at work until Thursday so I’ll get on it then!