GFY Very Slow? Crashing your Browser? CPU Load High on GFY? Hmmm
 

I'm not sure what it is about the new skin, but my machine runs VERY SLOW when I'm connected to GFY. And when I check my CPU usage it hovers between 24-40% !

I also just noticed that the REALITY CASH GIFvimage at the top is - wait for it - 1.5 Megabytes in size!!!! The other 2 images are 90k each, and the background image is 50k! Jeezuz!!

Back in the day, this kind of thing would have been seen as bad site design... yes bandwidth is cheaper and the net is much faster, but still..!

GFY: I hope you're charging the RealityCash guys for bandwidth - you'll make a killing!

Mark, Realitycash is GFY. same company.

Either way that is one big ass file.

I have found the pages load a "little" slower of late...

I've had to move to Firefox, lately... IE8 just crashes or the tab keeps crashing on GFY.

Posting from IE8... Hope it works!

No problems on Firefox!

I feel it's all due to the fact that this background is animated. Not 1 single instance of the animated background is visible on screen except in the brief moment before the board loads ontop of it, so there's virtually zero reason for it to be that way, but maybe in more common resolutions you can see it.

Visually I like the neon looking style of the header stuff, but the page bg would have been just as good static, and load faster. Just sharing what I've noticed.

edit: lmao, made the post then the skin was done.

It's slower then usual, yes.

Some of the Flash banners here used to beat the crap out of my CPU,
so I disabled Flash on GFY, and most other sites.

Oops! Didn't know that..

At any rate the images are removed and now GFY is FLYING...!

And yes it was faster on Chrome but I still use IE for most everything and it would hang often on GFY.

Anyway, all good now.