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    apple.com performance

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by knightingmagic, Apr 25, 2010.

  1. knightingmagic

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    Is apple.com incredibly slow for anyone else? (As in the pages themselves don't load for 10 seconds and then the they don't respond to mouse/keyboard input). No other major website (google/nytimes/facebook/youtube/etc) exhibits this kind of unusable browser hanging performance.
     
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    Nope, loads just fine for me. Maybe it's your browser?
     
    Jervis961, Apr 25, 2010
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    Same here, the apple site has always been super slow for me. I use kaspersky internet security, perhaps thats why?
     
    Partizan, Apr 25, 2010
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    I just went to apple.com and noticed the same thing. It seems to be restricted to Opera. The page loads fairly quickly in FF and Chrome.
     
    chris-m, Apr 25, 2010
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  5. knightingmagic

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    Maybe i'm just a conspiracy nut, but I think Apple is letting their website choke IE8. On a Mac with Safari, it's perfect. On Opera for Snow Leopard/Win XP/Win 7, it works ok - a little slower. On IE8 for XP/7 it's just unusable. Latest quicktime installed on windows systems.
     
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    it comes and goes... some areas of the website are slower than others. I think its not all ran on a single server. I know last week the store and most of the website was super fast for me, but looking at the ipad and macbook pro sections was EXTREMELY slow (even in Safari)... so I think at times certain parts of the site run by certain servers can get overloaded or have problems.
     
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    You shouldn't be using IE anyway. FF and Safari are much better browsers.
     
    akin_t, Apr 25, 2010
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    Yeah, I just tested it on IE8 on my PC and it is quite slow. Not sure why :p.
     
    Sam, Apr 25, 2010
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    Did IE 8 ever pass the acid3 test? I can't remember
     
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    it loads fine on chrome
     
    Luke1708, Apr 25, 2010
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