Are we that popular? Probably cause we don’t talk motorcycles enough…
Site performance is quite poor today
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sburns
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Relax
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US government bots scraping the Politics Paddock for CBP to use against us when we try to cross...
Mad Mike
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My guess is server and vendor config issues.
Server Robots.txt should only let in known good bots. Won’t stop maverick bots, but can help.
Zenforo Search should be disabled for all but regular members and higher.
Archive messages over 5 years old.
Enable Cloudfare free version, setup rules to limit bot traffic.
That’s a few hours of work that should change the site into a screamer.
Server Robots.txt should only let in known good bots. Won’t stop maverick bots, but can help.
Zenforo Search should be disabled for all but regular members and higher.
Archive messages over 5 years old.
Enable Cloudfare free version, setup rules to limit bot traffic.
That’s a few hours of work that should change the site into a screamer.
Relax
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Just please don't use Captcha where it asks you to select the parts of the pic that contains a motorcycle. Apparently I don't know what a motorcycle is because I've never passed the test. I've tried including the squares with the rider, the ones with a sliver of a tire, license plate, etc., but always fail and move on to identifying fire hydrants, cars or buses. I've also failed on traffic lights. And unluckily for me on Rogers XFinity, all those sites think my IP is a bot source so I have to confirm I'm human all the time.
I don't know how they behave. Presumably, bots can be configured to be friendly and slowly wander around or have no decency and try to load thousands of pages a second. A few bad actors could easily load the server more than thousands of snails.
sburns
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Like a few chitheads spoiling it for everyone else.
Also, I'm sure all sites are dealing with these kinds of issues, I hate to say it but this site is the only one with regularly noticeable slowdowns.
With Cutekills permission I can work on applying a good portion of this. I believe I have all the magic buttons still despite being AWOL for a year or so. Life changed pretty dramatically (understatement of the year) for me, long story I don't really want to get into here, but if there's something I can help with in the meantime I'm willing to poke into things as time allows.
holy smokes, welcome back.
Mad Mike
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Crawling pages is normal and doesn’t hurt that much. Bots that invoke searches which are server killers - AI servers do this a lot.
sburns
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Site is just craweling right now, was fine earlier, now it's not. It took me a minute to open this thread, once I got to it after checking online users.
Nothing crazy, but whatever bot or bots are slowing the site should be a top priority.
Annnnd this popped up when trying to attach the image...good grief.
Nothing crazy, but whatever bot or bots are slowing the site should be a top priority.
Annnnd this popped up when trying to attach the image...good grief.
I've spoken to Cutekill. She's hoping to look into updates this weekend.
Maybe @PrivatePilot can reach out to her directly as well if he has the ability to support.
Maybe @PrivatePilot can reach out to her directly as well if he has the ability to support.
sburns
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Once again....
Decided to try Chrome just in case, no extensions.... and well.
It eventually loaded, and wow the amount of ads is something. Some of them are very spammy and not encouraging, if your bounce rate is high, this might be a reason. Maybe a rethink might be in order, and it's possible some of these ads might be part of the slowdown issues.
I normally use Firefox with ad blocker, which strips out most of that garbage. Sorry for being harsh but honestly if I had the full experience from the beginning I might not be around here.
Decided to try Chrome just in case, no extensions.... and well.
It eventually loaded, and wow the amount of ads is something. Some of them are very spammy and not encouraging, if your bounce rate is high, this might be a reason. Maybe a rethink might be in order, and it's possible some of these ads might be part of the slowdown issues.
I normally use Firefox with ad blocker, which strips out most of that garbage. Sorry for being harsh but honestly if I had the full experience from the beginning I might not be around here.
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