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MTC is getting ridiculously slow
It takes a minute for a page to load today, what's going on? I know some people (me included) have been complaining about the performance for a while now, is anything being done about it?
I really do find the info on MTC to be useful and do want to spend more time reading through it to discover more. HOWEVER, it's so slow that it's not just practical to use.
Compared to similar sites - e.g. stackoverflow - MTC is...
- far too slow to expect people to use. something is wrong. don't ask me to diagnose what's wrong, the Microsoft need to start taking this seriously
- a terrible UI - text areas too narrow, far too much page space used up by non-valuable banners, icons etc.
Take a good look at stackoverflow/stackexchange and question why does that site/platform work so well for what it is designed, and why is techcommunity so bad. You'd do us all a big favour by changing platforms.
mrboxx wrote:I really do find the info on MTC to be useful and do want to spend more time reading through it to discover more. HOWEVER, it's so slow that it's not just practical to use.
Compared to similar sites - e.g. stackoverflow - MTC is...
- far too slow to expect people to use. something is wrong. don't ask me to diagnose what's wrong, the Microsoft need to start taking this seriously
- a terrible UI - text areas too narrow, far too much page space used up by non-valuable banners, icons etc.
Take a good look at stackoverflow/stackexchange and question why does that site/platform work so well for what it is designed, and why is techcommunity so bad. You'd do us all a big favour by changing platforms.
Totally agree.
the load times are ridiculous. my Internet is not a bottleneck, my CPU and hardware is not the bottleneck, it's the website itself that loads slowly. and people having been reporting this for almost a year now but no change has been made!
- Allen
Community Manager
I am deeply disappointed to hear your having such a negative experience with the Microsoft Tech Community. The Developer team, engineers have put a great deal of effort in over the last 5-6 weeks to reduce page load time.
Our azure monitoring is showing we have more than halved page load time in that time frame, with the average page load time globally (except china) of between 2.8 and 3.6 seconds. Our slowest page is the Community Hubs page (>7 seconds), which we know about and are working with the platform engineers to improve that before the new year.
That said we are not done and we have plans over the next few months to look into other data we might be able to cache to speed up page load times further. We are also planning to move the entire Microsoft Tech Community into the Azure cloud in early Dec which will help with stability and better geo-redundancy.
I am happy to take feedback on our UI elements, the best way to do that is via the Community Ideas board so we can prioritize your ask based upon the community popularity of your idea and our business needs.
We are also planning to do a complete refresh of the UI with a completely new skin later in 2021 but I will share more on that as it becomes available.
If either of you are opening to help me diagnose why your specifically getting slow response from the Microsoft Tech Community then please do email us and I will work with you to collect more information.
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Allen wrote:I am deeply disappointed to hear your having such a negative experience with the Microsoft Tech Community. The Developer team, engineers have put a great deal of effort in over the last 5-6 weeks to reduce page load time.
Our azure monitoring is showing we have more than halved page load time in that time frame, with the average page load time globally (except china) of between 2.8 and 3.6 seconds. Our slowest page is the Community Hubs page (>7 seconds), which we know about and are working with the platform engineers to improve that before the new year.
That said we are not done and we have plans over the next few months to look into other data we might be able to cache to speed up page load times further. We are also planning to move the entire Microsoft Tech Community into the Azure cloud in early Dec which will help with stability and better geo-redundancy.
I am happy to take feedback on our UI elements, the best way to do that is via the Community Ideas board so we can prioritize your ask based upon the community popularity of your idea and our business needs.
We are also planning to do a complete refresh of the UI with a completely new skin later in 2021 but I will share more on that as it becomes available.
If either of you are opening to help me diagnose why your specifically getting slow response from the Microsoft Tech Community then please do email us and I will work with you to collect more information.
Hi,
Thanks for the reply,
I will send you an email in few minutes.
also it's good to hear that you're moving to Azure, it's the best experience I've ever had on the web.
be it websites hosted on Azure, or game servers hosted there, always low ping and fast load times.
I don't live in China (but curious why it's slower there), when I compare the load times of YouTube's home page VS my profile page on MTC, MTC is 5 times slower.
majority of the time i'm seeing this at the bottom of the browser.
p.s the email hyperlink in the post points to:
mailto:techcommunity.microsoft.com?subject="Performance%20issues%20-%20F.A.O%20Allenbut the correct one is this i think? Allen
mailto:techcommunity@microsoft.com?subject="Performance%20issues%20-%20F.A.O%20Allen
