EML site is too slow from IE at hospital computers
Bug #903468 reported by
Tarek Loubani
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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EM London Website |
Confirmed
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High
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EM London team |
Bug Description
JD reports, and I can confirm, that the page loads ridiculously slowly from IE on hospital computers. to the point that it is essentially unusable. This is especially detrimental when members are trying to look through schedules.
I haven't done a page-load analysis on it, but I expect that the javascript and css goodness are partly to blame - e.g., the fading in main page.
I'll look at it and report back here.
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I had never noticed the fade thing until you mentioned it. Its gone. I had not turned on some of the optimizations yet either (as they were messing with my local apache install) - they are now on. I have cut my own load times by 1.2s (a huge amount in web-time as you know)
I suspect the problem largely has to do with
1) The hospitals ancient firewall system - I have probed/scanned it before to see exactly what it was tracking and its logging and it is checking EVERYTHING bouncing it off some sort of internal router before sending it out - try loading even a page like google.com (fast server/simple page) at work = waaaaay slower than it should be.
2) The most current version of IE at the hospital is sadly IE7 - almost as non-standards compliant as IE6 (no HTML5, no CSS3, poor/slow JS implementation). Not to mention the fact that a fair number of thin clients are still running IE6. (The LHSC IT guy in charge of software maintenance never got back to me).
I can work on building essentially a "text-only" version when it detects IE6/IE7 or I think I can even get it to detect the hosp IP range. I'll throw it onto the ever-growing list.