When did GitHub became so slow?

Question

I have 1Gbps speed in download. Every single website loads instantly, I can have multiple big downloads in parallel without a single slow down.Yet, it's been a few months, the Github website is really slow. It takes between 30s to sometimes 2-3 minutes!! (I'm not exaggerating) to load. And I'm not talking about "the webpage loads instantly then I have to wait for the actual content to show up", the webpage itself is extremely slow (by "webpage", I'm talking about that first HTTP request the browser sends to get the initial HTML/JS/etc).Is it only me?

LinuxBender · Accepted Answer

I have not experienced this but 99% of my traffic to them is cloning repositories. Have you inspected your traffic in the web console of your browser? There is a network view that shows a waterfall of objects and how long it takes to get each one. I believe it also should DNS timing. It may be worth looking into that if you have time. If so I would start by clearing cache, closing the browser then opening and starting the web console in the network view so you get uncached data. Another step may be to disable all addons somewhere in your debugging as they can add red herrings.

cebert · Answer

I don&rsquo;t have that experience. It seems to load and display content reasonably fast to me.

JSDevOps · Answer

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