Jalopnik running slowly on your computer?

[mike-tracy]

One of my favorite car websites recently made a drastic change in it's software, and my dual core AMD computer is no longer fast enough to run it. Seriously, a website doesn't need to take up 50% of my processing power to be able to run.

The solution? the Canadian version of the site still works with the old format which uses <1% of my processing power. The address is:

ca.jalopnik.com


and seriously, if you haven't been reading the site, it's worth your while to check it out.
-Mike

[n2x4]

The new format sucks terribly. I've been using the uk and ca links to browse the gawker sites but it's only a matter of time before they update. When they do, I'll abandon them completely. Such a horrible redesign.

[BSOD2600]

Which part of the site is slow? I just tried browsing a few articles (XP SP3, Firefox 3.6.13, Flash 10.2) and the cpu usage is nothing. What browser you using?

[evolutionmovement]

Yeah, I don't visit Gizmodo as often now. I might abandon it completely. Terrible redesign, not user friendly at all. Apparently, there's also a lot more ads, but Chrome seems to do a good job of blocking them, so I can't say personally.

[mike-tracy]

Which part of the site is slow? I just tried browsing a few articles (XP SP3, Firefox 3.6.13, Flash 10.2) and the cpu usage is nothing. What browser you using?

I'm on my mom's computer right now. I put in a 2.61ghz AMD FX-60 (the king of socket 969!) dual core processor and 2gb of ram, running XP-SP3 and the latest firefox. When scrolling up or down, the combined processor usage is 50%, and if I "set afinity" to either core only, it goes to 100%.

My personal computer is a socket am2/am3 dual core processor, similar in specs but much more powerful than the FX-60, 2gb ram, XP-SP3 and it does the same thing, 50% usage over 2 cores, and 100% over 1. Scrolling is jerky and loading pages is much slower due to the buggy/non optimized code (imo).

My school computers are higher end core2Duo and they handle the site fine. 4gb ram and xp-sp3.

My point is that 3 year old hardware should be able to run a site just fine. Other than the gawker sites, my computer is speedy enough to handle anything, including recent games.

[n2x4]

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s12jalopnik&r=12

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