ML you popular beast... ;)

[scottalanmiller]

After the last move to HTTPS the jump in search engine traffic was huge. Presumably our ranking jumped a lot.

Overall the site does really well in SEO based on the extreme level of content and constant activity combined with the incredible load speeds. That does a lot to boost us over the "competition".

We literally see, at least where I test, loads of like 10-100x faster here than some other popular IT discussion sites. That does a LOT for getting us search engine traffic.

[MattSpeller]

FWIW I've never had a 503 to this website

[DustinB3403]

I've only seen it once.

About a month ago, just refreshed and it was gone.

[Danp]

Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null
https://ajax.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/nexp/dok3v=e982913d31/cloudflare.min.js line 4 > eval line 1 > eval
Line 2

The error seems to be on this line:

document.getElementById('home-ad' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 7) + 1)).className = '';

[JaredBusch]

@MattSpeller said in ML you popular beast... :

FWIW I've never had a 503 to this website

I too never see the 503 during normal use. I have gotten it and then noticed a post stating the site was being restarted, so those do not count.

[Dashrender]

I've only see the page busy error once. As for the websocket loading bar spinning icon, I haven't seen that in ages.

[Danp]

@Danp said in ML you popular beast... :

Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

To clarify, this post was in reference to the spinning circle issue, not the 503 error.

[JaredBusch]

@Danp said in ML you popular beast... :

@Danp said in ML you popular beast... :

Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

To clarify, this post was in reference to the spinning circle issue, not the 503 error.

and this post is to confirm that I am only seeing the spinning circle and progress bar get stuck when the ads are failing to load. notice no ad below the my profile. also no add was at the bottom of the page.

[scottalanmiller]

That is very odd as the ads should be all from cache and are all local to the server, too.

[thwr]

@scottalanmiller: @JaredBusch is right, see my screenshot above: No ads (adblocker is deactivated for ML)

[Danp]

Looks like the issue is here:

<a id="home-ad1" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="http://www.xbyte.com/?utm_source=mangolassi&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=1recgeneral">
<a id="home-ad2" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="http://www.xbyte.com/?utm_source=mangolassi&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=1recgeneral">
<img class="img-responsive" src="https://mangolassi.it/uploads/files/ml/xbyte2.jpg">
<img class="hidden img-responsive" target="_blank" href="http://www.flukenetworks.com/enterprise-network/network-testing/linksprinter?ls=mangolassi&lsd=mangolassiad" home-ad3"="" src="</a> <a id=">
<img class="img-responsive" src="https://mangolassi.it/uploads/files/ml/NS-Education-160x600-C.jpg">
</a>
<a id="home-ad4" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="http://www.flukenetworks.com/content/try-onetouch-your-network-free?ls=mangolassi&lsd=mangolassiad">
<a id="home-ad5" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="https://order.aetherstore.com/registration/partner?referralSource=MangoLassi">
<a id="home-ad6" class="" target="_blank" href="https://mangocon.it/">
<a id="home-ad7" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="https://mangocon.it/">

Note how "home-ad3' is not defined correctly.

[scottalanmiller]

Just fixed it. Let's see if that cleans things up.

[Danp]

@scottalanmiller So far, so good.

[thwr]

At 09:08h CEST / GMT+2? I guess there's something else up, we had quite some heavy discussions yesterday without any 503.

[scottalanmiller]

@thwr load is increasing quickly. We are definitely under heavier than normal view load. Nothing epic, but easily double yesterday, which was more average.

[IRJ]

I see it at least 4-5 times a day if not more. A refresh always does the trick, though.

[IRJ]

That didn't take long...

[travisdh1]

@IRJ Must be my lucky day, I haven't seen one yet.

[IRJ]

@travisdh1 said in ML you popular beast... :

@IRJ Must be my lucky day, I haven't seen one yet.

I have seen 2 this morning and I have only been here a little over an hour.

[scottalanmiller]

None here yet. Fingers crossed.