Introducing Slowww.ml – the slow web server
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If you have five minutes spare, could you please visit this link, wait 30 seconds, and then tell me if it loads anything?
THANKS!
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@Edent nothing loaded for me!
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@FINOkoye did you wait 30 seconds?
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@Edent Hosting error for me
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@jonathanhogg ta!
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@Edent Er, well I get this immediately
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@mattround boooo!
It is a stupidly long-running script and I thought I could get away with running it on a free host.
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@Edent
Cool idea!The image doesn't actually load. And something about it messes with the positioning of the page. While an image "loads" I can't actually scroll away to follow the text that's being displayed - the browser keeps jumping back to the image. Which, again, never seems to actually load.
I gave up after that.
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@jannem interesting. Which browser are you using?
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@Edent Firefox mobile on Android.
I can check on desktop and with chromium as well if you like.
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@Edent Kept trying & got it to work eventually! In Chrome it appears gradually as I assume you intended, in Safari it seems to be loading behind the scenes and only renders when I stop it
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@mattround interesting! I didn't realise Safari was so fastidious.
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@Edent yup, and then some
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@FINOkoye thanks! Will re-try the experiment later.
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@Edent Well it worked for me - nice and slow! Apart from the slow loading image - just got a broken image symbol even after the webp image loaded.
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@Edent
So this is what it looks like on desktop:
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@neil I hadn't realised the free host would stick JS in front of it. A bit annoying, but probably good enough for my purposes.
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@jannem perfect, ta!
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@simoncox how odd! Which browser are you using?
