I nominate this vendor for the Hall of Shame as the ultimate slowest website owner: Cornell Dubilier
It takes more than 10 minutes to open this page, can't say exactly how much (had lunch in the mean time), which was just enough to get this opened. Yes, I'm on ADSL. Firefox v2.
What the f*ck are they thinking?
Mine old laptop loaded the page fully in 9 seconds. Maybe it is not them.
Came up in about 15seconds fer me using google chrome.
Rheilly P
My old laptop finished downloading this page in 9 seconds. Maybe it is not their fault.
Less than 3 seconds here. Broadband.
PEBKAC
I'm the end of a very fat network pipe right now, and it hung Internet Exploder for about 20-30 seconds before anything worked again. Exploder was pretty messed up while it tried to open the page and nothing worked in any other window.
My guess is that web page development got contracted to the CEO's bother in law or something.
Tim.
Initially Firefox took 25 seconds, but later reloads fast, and pdf download is not bad. Explorer keeps asking for ActivX permissions because thats the way mine is set up. I quit that. And then I acepted all transactions. I don't see anything different, and when I shift pages all the prompts come back on.
greg
Perhaps one of my firefox plugins is having trouble with something on that page. Anyway, I used AdBlock to block offending part and now it loads normally.
False alarm probably :)
M
I have just (5 Jun 2009 16:50 GMT) tried it:
iCab 2.9.9 without Javascript - no response after 1 minute iCab 3.0.5 with Javascript - no response after 1 minute Mozilla 1.3 - no response after 1 minute I Explorer 5.1 - no response after 1 minute Navigator 3.0 - 5k after one minute (average rate 124 bytes/sec)
This is in the UK on broadband on a Beige Mac G3 running OS 8.6.
That domain was first used by "Craig's Data Exchange" as the internet portal from a BBS in Mt. Dora Florida. It was even worse, back then. it was the only local dial up ISP in the area, other than AOL.
BTW, 'Craig' made dimbulb look smart, and Phil, good natured. He owned a computer store, till his temper and reputation drove everyone away.
Indeed, I tried many hours later and pdf download stalled for a couple minutes and than finished in a few seconds. Looks like an "intermittent contact" somewhere on their web server.
So I guess they do belong into that hall of shame after all.
M
DAMN! I am on dial-up and that would take a goodly part of a day!!!
Maybe it is that moth in the relay contacts (AKA "bug")...
works fine under IE8
Cheers
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Opens _fairly_ quickly under Firefox v3.0.10 _TODAY_.
Yesterday couldn't open it at all. Maybe someone got the message ?:-)
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I clicked the URL in the article at 05:59:35. News client had to launch Internet Explorer 8. Page was completely loaded at 06:00:25. Internet is Comcast Cable.
Ken Fowler, KO6NO
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