Comments on: Why Facebook is so slow

By: mart kyr

mart kyr — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:57:34 +0000

you dont know much do you?

the reason facebook is so slow has nothing at all to do with the load on the servers, the reason its so slow is the fact that the applications that runs on it are coded terrible, and completly hammer your browser using more ram and more cpu cycles…

load a freshly made profile on facebook, it will load in miliseconds, load a popular persons profile, who has lots of friends and lots os stupid applications installed on there profile, it will take for ever to load.. but while your waiting, hit ctrl alt and del and check out how much cpu and ram usage your browsers executable file (firefox.exe or iexplorer.exe) is using.. 100%

you know nothing about web servers

By: admin

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:32:44 +0000

I know more than the average person about web servers. But, I admit there is a lot that i don’t know. If you are implying that updating information is not more intensive than reading information then I guess I know more than you about databases.

The number of applications on facebook could well be another reason why it runs slowly - so no argument with you there.

The main point of the post, therefore, still stands true - it is not very surprising that facebook is slow.

By: annoyed user

annoyed user — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:29:03 +0000

Its annoying either way, I would have thought that due to its high popularity the Facebook guys would have got themselves a few extra servers to handle the strain… that and regulated the stupid Apps that keep popping up… or maybe just get rid of the 3rd party ones?

By: Hintswen

Hintswen — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:54:40 +0000

to annoyed user

You realize that most of the apps are 3rd party?
Have you ever looked at the list of apps that are not 3rd party?
It’s basically the few that are installed automatically when you make your account and about 20 more.

By: wtf-er

wtf-er — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:58:36 +0000

why the hell did you compare facebook with google searching?

google has an index, facebook is another story.. it might have its own index, but it has to be a heavier index… google simply has URLs and sitemaps..

By: Wayne M

Wayne M — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:29:27 +0000

Facebook runs pretty good for how many requests it gets per minute. I know my computer is stupid fast and my cpu will max out on one of the cores from certain profiles, *(Tara get rid of all that crap ) but that doesn’t mean anything when the status bar is “waiting for page” for about 30 seconds.

I do understand what is “working” in the background of facebook and if you want to see your computer do the same thing, open up a search and look for ever *.ini file on your computer while you open MSPAINT and do a bucket fill with red on a file that is 40000×30000 pixels and try to open up your documents folder, see how long that takes on your 1000 dollar machine and imagine facebook is doing millions of millions of things like that per second and still doing it well 24hrs a day for a growing interconnecting everchanging mass of people.

It’s great that we have these FREE services and no complain that there is a longer delay than usual. If you want to feel the real lag try dialing up to it

Wayne M

By: admin

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:40:31 +0000

Re:”why the hell did you compare facebook with google searching?”
I was pre-empting the question “If Google can present a zillion search results in milliseconds, why does Facebook take so long to display a pretty profile?”
Answer: Yes, facebook is another story completely