My site is loading slower than usual, what is wrong?
This is a tough question to answer. There are a great many reasons for transient slow performance, but there are ways you can investigate this further. Network packets must travel a long way from your local PC to the server where your webpage is located, and back. During it’s travels, each packet must pass through many routers and switches along the way, and experiences delays in each of these “hops”. Local PC: If you dial into the Internet through a modem, most slowdowns occur between your PC and your dial-up account because this is where you have the least bandwidth (the amount of data which can be pushed through your modem at any given time, such as 33kbps, 56kbps, etc.). If you are using Windows 95/98, you may notice the little monitor lights in your status bar (usually lower right) which glow when data is being transmitted to or received from the Internet. If these lights are on almost continuously, then your network connection is “saturated” (ie. your computer is pulling as much
