Why does the website appear to work very sporadically?
First of all, it is important to keep in mind that the website is constantly changing, so it is very possible that at some point our users enter the website while changes are being made. Another point of note is that a monsoon brings not only precious water, but also powerful thunderstorms capable of shutting down electricity for quite a long time, which would in turn affect the availability of our servers. Additionally, there are several factors that could affect the rainlogger’s experience on the website. The main two are Internet connectivity and computer capacity. The amount of data transmitted to show the map and the rainfall totals is quite large so a slow connection will definitely affect users who, for instance, are using a phone dialup to access the internet. Computer capacity also plays a role on the user experience, so an old computer may not have enough resources available to handle the content of the website. The same is true of older versions of web browsers. On this latt
