Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 days agoI’m in the US, in Southern California, so for sure could be contributing. Not sure where .ca is hosted.
As for an example, I just went to .world on my desktop browser (firefox) and loaded /all /new. It was 16 seconds between the click and all the visible graphics being loaded. The same thing on .ca was just under 5 seconds. On my tablet, the difference is greater.
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
how long does it take in an incognito browser window?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Oh, much, much faster! Interesting. Okay, why is that?
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
there were some caching issues in lemmy-ui where it would unnecessarily eat up disk space for caching without even making use of it properly. there was a change done in 0.19.12 that was supposed to mitigate this, but for users who have already collected this it won’t automatically delete the unnecessary cache until they logout: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3150
even when clearing this manually though i still see this take longer than you’d expect to load, it seems that the image cache is still slowing things down.
i also had some delays on images on the front page before all media loaded. i was able to speed things up again by executing
await window.caches.delete(“image-cache”)in my browser dev tools console, but that is certainly not something to expect from regular users.i’ve raised a new issue about this now: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3195
meanwhile, you can also work around this by deleting cached data for lemmy.world in your browser, at least until it fills up again.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Excellent, thank you. I just cleared my cache and it does seem to have helped a fair amount. Not nearly as fast as in a private window, but probably as fast as .ca is now. Much appreciated, I’m glad I asked.
I guess that would explain why people who access it with an app don’t seem to have the same issue, correct?