I know it's not my net because streaming and games are fine. YouTube is fine. Literally everything is fine, except e621. Is this something that's being worked on? Or is it that there is something us viewers have to do? It's kinda frustrating that any animations or WEBMs over 2 seconds take several minutes to fully load, upwards of an hour and beyond.

It's working fine for me, personally. Not sure what's going on for you.

my phone is like that. It's ancient tho.

I don't have any information for you, and don't know if any can be gathered, but some more information would probably help us!

Is this something that has always happened for you, or did this recently start?

If it recently started, some information about your geographic location might help (sometimes, the fish like to nibble on internet cords in the water, you know? ;) )

Is this on a PC/laptop or a phone? Can you look on someting different?

Does this also affect still images? (as in, do really big pictures take a while to load?)

Or certain file types?

post #1406316 is a animated gif -- how fast does it load? It's 2MB and something like 20 seconds long.

post #1626083 is an animated gif. It's 18MB and ... I'm not sure how long it is, but probably a few seconds

post #1419590 is a still image and is 25 MB.

post #1671503 is a webm and is 27 MB and 2 minutes long.

I don't want exact times for each of those... but like.. The last three SHOULD all take the sameish time to load.. so if it doesn't, that helps a bit, doesn't it? :)

Let's try and figure out what the problem might be.

Can confirm the issue on my side, has been that way since the past week, maybe more. The download speeds usually hover at about 300 kbit/s (~40 kB/s), no matter what content or device. Throughout the past year or so it used to be about 4 Mbit/s (~500 kB/s) which, while still not the best, was still acceptable. This is in Slovakia. Unfortunately as of right now I can't test other ISP, but considering that it goes through CloudFlare that shouldn't be an issue either.

SnowWolf said:
I don't have any information for you, and don't know if any can be gathered, but some more information would probably help us!

Is this something that has always happened for you, or did this recently start?

If it recently started, some information about your geographic location might help (sometimes, the fish like to nibble on internet cords in the water, you know? ;) )

Is this on a PC/laptop or a phone? Can you look on someting different?

Does this also affect still images? (as in, do really big pictures take a while to load?)

Or certain file types?

post #1406316 is a animated gif -- how fast does it load? It's 2MB and something like 20 seconds long.

post #1626083 is an animated gif. It's 18MB and ... I'm not sure how long it is, but probably a few seconds

post #1419590 is a still image and is 25 MB.

post #1671503 is a webm and is 27 MB and 2 minutes long.

I don't want exact times for each of those... but like.. The last three SHOULD all take the sameish time to load.. so if it doesn't, that helps a bit, doesn't it? :)

Let's try and figure out what the problem might be.

Yeah the last two take forever to load and sometimes just top altogether. This slow down has only been recent, I've never encountered this problem before. Even tried on my phone just to make sure it wasn't my PC, unfortunately same results on my phone. Not the internet provider since my phone isn't connected to Wi-Fi.

SnowWolf said:
I don't have any information for you, and don't know if any can be gathered, but some more information would probably help us!

Is this something that has always happened for you, or did this recently start?

If it recently started, some information about your geographic location might help (sometimes, the fish like to nibble on internet cords in the water, you know? ;) )

Is this on a PC/laptop or a phone? Can you look on someting different?

Does this also affect still images? (as in, do really big pictures take a while to load?)

Or certain file types?

post #1406316 is a animated gif -- how fast does it load? It's 2MB and something like 20 seconds long.

post #1626083 is an animated gif. It's 18MB and ... I'm not sure how long it is, but probably a few seconds

post #1419590 is a still image and is 25 MB.

post #1671503 is a webm and is 27 MB and 2 minutes long.

I don't want exact times for each of those... but like.. The last three SHOULD all take the sameish time to load.. so if it doesn't, that helps a bit, doesn't it? :)

Let's try and figure out what the problem might be.

Same problem as OP, started around week ago. What's weird, it usually works good for first few posts then slows down to absurdly low speeds. Two different devices (desktop and mobile), two different browsers on PC (firefox and opera). Same effect. WEBM/Animated are no-go at this absurd rate, even still images around 2-3MB big are loading for up to 10-20 seconds. Miniatures on list pages also takes forever to load or even don't load at all.
Before that problem started I was able to open up even 30-40 pages of animated content at once, it would all load up in 2-3 minutes top. Now I need to wait few minutes for one WEBM.

Honestly glad to see I'm not the only one, but not glad that we have this unfortunate event to deal with. If it is affecting some, but not others then it might be a server domain issue? Or maybe gateway issue that is affecting certain locations in the world and/or countries? If that's the case I guess we bide our time until e621 is able to figure out a solution. Is there any way to report this incident to the e621 team? Just to put it on their radar if possible.

Reporting it in the forums gets it on our radar, I promise :)

I guess some information about where--geographically--you guys are might help too -- especially if it turns out that you're both in, say, Spain or something.

That said, since it doesn't seem to be a universal issue... it's probably geographic in some respect. D:

SnowWolf said:
Reporting it in the forums gets it on our radar, I promise :)

I guess some information about where--geographically--you guys are might help too -- especially if it turns out that you're both in, say, Spain or something.

That said, since it doesn't seem to be a universal issue... it's probably geographic in some respect. D:

Poland, Silesian region. Brand new fiber connection but it was laid down whole month before problems started. And I've just checked with different PC in same LAN, same problem.

Poland, 300/30 fiber (Speedtest results)
Looks like its' the images that are at fault: Firefox devtools
Query it was tested on: NSFW

Both the site and the API are terribly slow

Angurr said:
Poland, 300/30 fiber (Speedtest results)
Looks like its' the images that are at fault: Firefox devtools
Query it was tested on: NSFW

Both the site and the API are terribly slow

Midwest continental U.S., fiber.

Running that same query and others, I'm seeing inconsistent response times on the thumbnails. Sometimes, all the thumbnails load in roughly 60ms. Sometimes, they're 400ms-600ms.

The main page load seems to vary on the complexity/size of the search. That deertaur query is only 200ms-300ms, but female -equine is routinely 1000ms-1200ms. That said, hitting the deertaur query 6-8 times, it did take 1000ms once. That could just be the vagaries of internet traffic, though.

It also seems informative that while a speedtest to my local server currently gives me 500/200 at 3ms, reaching out to Poland drops that to 13/15 with 146ms latency. So if those transoceanic links are in play for folks across the pond...

Of course, sometimes the site does seem to drag, but I've always assumed that was due to normal congestion during peak use hours, because it would be something silly like a single upvote taking 5 seconds, and then subsequent page loads would load almost instantly.

Don't think it's a matter of transoceanic lines. I can ping e621.net and the response time is 15-25ms, not any higher than pinging websites based in the country.

Also, resources like stylesheets, JS, and even the base response are just peachy. It's the image/video/flash files that seem to be the problem.

And indeed, pinging static1.e621.net is giving me 180-260ms response, with TTL=52.

All in all, looks like a CDN issue.

SnowWolf said:
Reporting it in the forums gets it on our radar, I promise :)

I guess some information about where--geographically--you guys are might help too -- especially if it turns out that you're both in, say, Spain or something.

That said, since it doesn't seem to be a universal issue... it's probably geographic in some respect. D:

Any update on topic?

Still a problem.

I live in Nevada (the state right above the servers), and I'm connecting just fine. The couple of times that I had issues connecting to e621 was due to QoS (quality of service) being fucked with on my router, and for some odd reason, The Wolf's Stash app just likes to load everything super slowly, despite being on 5Ghz WiFi and 400Mb/s internet.

The site have been running slow for me lately. It is only this site though. Other sites I on have been fine.

Ontario here, massive slowdown started roughly a week ago. Seems to be aggravated by large file and opening multiple tabs at once. Single images tend to open at a noticeably slower (~2-3 seconds)but manageable pace, opening multiple ones often causes them to fail after several minutes and webms, gifs and other animations seem to take exponentially longer depending on their file size. Oddly images do not seem to share this with large file size images loading normally (relative to stated slowness) regardless of file size.

No hangs on a trace route and general connectivity with the site hasn't been an issue.

Happens randomly when opening ~10 flagged posts at once and sometimes just regular browsing refuses to load some samples, but F5 fixes that.