problems using another website

pennymakespounds

not sure if i'm in order asking this question here .. but with a struggle i have emailed them but had no answer ......

As a massive fan and supporter of MSE over the years .. the other website i check regularly is hotukdeals .. i noticed the other day the site was down quite a while .. there was a message saying major revamp happening.

Since then ..it's impossible to use .... so slow .. everything takes forever .
Same problem regardless of whether i'm logged on via aol .. or via IE.
Running desktop on xp.

First problem is that the width of a page is about twice that of my screen ... then every click takes ages to happen .. scrolling takes forever ..

Been like this all week now .

Any ideas /suggestions ?

thanks

kwikbreaks

This is a site I have in my favourites but don't visit regularly so I didn't spot any downtime and tbh I don't see that it looks any different from how I remember it.

It looks and performs OK in FireFox for me and also IE8. Initial load wasn't all that quick considering I'm on 20Mbps cable. Page width before getting a horizontal scroll is ~ 750px.

Not sure what you may have got wrong - all I can suggest is clearing temp files and maybe cookies.

pennymakespounds

kwikbreaks .. done all of that .. do all updates & cleaning everyday so nothing differrent .
Just curious that i have no problems at all with any other website.

dragon934

pennymakespounds wrote: »

kwikbreaks .. done all of that .. do all updates & cleaning everyday so nothing differrent .
Just curious that i have no problems at all with any other website.

does the text look larger than normal? you might have a zoom function activated, that is being remembered for that page

kwikbreaks

dragon934 wrote: »

does the text look larger than normal? you might have a zoom function activated, that is being remembered for that page

That may account for the width but not the speed - bigger text don't take longer to arrive

dragon934

kwikbreaks wrote: »

That may account for the width but not the speed - bigger text don't take longer to arrive

very true, and thinking of it, you've already instructed to clear all the cache etc. so shouldn't be an issue anyways.

weegie.geek

They have just changed the site quite drastically. It's possible, I guess, that this is the cause of it.

I'm using firefox though, but it's worth trying firefox.

dragon934

weegie.geek wrote: »

They have just changed the site quite drastically. It's possible, I guess, that this is the cause of it.

I'm using firefox though, but it's worth trying firefox.

Yes, I personally find firefox works best in most cases

pennymakespounds

Originally Posted by dragon934
does the text look larger than normal? you might have a zoom function activated, that is being remembered for that page

How do i find out about / and sort that ?