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Ask HN: Why is Posterous so slow?

10 pointsjohnnytee10 comments

I created a blank template on Posterous that loads nothing but their files and it has 42 request. Page took 7.60 sec to load with a primed cache.

Couldn't some of these be merged, minified or conditional?

Here's a screenshot http://dl.dropbox.com/u/558799/jing/2011-03-30_1428.png

Posterous is a great service but page loads take forever.

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Hi Johnny

Most sites are loading very quickly for me. What is your site url?

We varnish all site pages, so maybe when you went to the site the first time it wasn't cached, but it should be now.

Let me know and we'll take care of it

-Sachin CEO, Posterous

Hi Sachin,

I have two sites. http://evacate.me and http://johndturner.com I'm using Chrome.

Thanks!

both loaded pretty much instantly for me. if you are still seeing issues, email me. sachin@posterous.com. thanks

Hey Sachin,

My site is rorywalker.com and it also takes ages to load.

For what it's worth, around the time the OP was created, my blog was also frustratingly slow. However, it seemed to clear itself up after an hour or so and I have not had the issue any more. Perhaps there was a bit of a network hiccup occurring at the time?

I've noticed that as well, last time my posterous was linked to on HN several people in #startups noted that it was quite slow.

At a guess if Sachin's not seeing it, it may be down to the TCP config on the fronting server, if it's badly setup it can vastly increase the number of network roundtrip data takes to be sent, so people on more remote networks (i.e in Europe/Asia) may well see significantly slower times.

We were seeing some high load times earlier this month because of increased traffic. but earlier this week we added a bunch of boxes, cached most pages, and generally improved the speed of the site across the board.

if you are still seeing issues, let me know.

Maybe you should ask someone at Posterous instead of posting here.

I did, no response. Hoping this will get some attention from Posterous.

It did, see above. What was the url?

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