Google outage takes down LQ

pixellany · 03-02-2007, 07:55 AM

Just recently, Google went down and appeared to take LQ with it. When attempting to start LQ, it would hang looking for something like "google analytics".

Anyone seen this before?

Hitboxx · 03-02-2007, 08:01 AM

Oh yeah, i dare say that is also a culprit for my delay on LQ sometimes, LQ is fast per se, but that thing takes around 8-9 secs off my connection time.

jeremy · 03-02-2007, 09:26 AM

I've not found the included google code to be slow from here. If it continues to be a problem, let me know.

--jeremy

trickykid · 03-02-2007, 09:27 AM

I don't have any problems or ever encountered this myself..

pixellany · 03-02-2007, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

I've not found the included google code to be slow from here. If it continues to be a problem, let me know.

--jeremy

Not a question of slow -----when Google went down, it was not possible to connect to LQ. Checked some other sites at the time and they were working.

General Failure · 03-02-2007, 10:50 AM

But in fact google-analytics is slow. If I'm waiting for LQ to load, I'm waiting for google-analytics. I'm in Germany.

pixellany · 03-02-2007, 11:42 AM

What seems to be consistent is that LQ waits for google-analytics. But if it has to wait forever, that does not seem like good design. Is it not possible to have the site load with or without google? (or at least to have a timeout?)

Hitboxx · 03-02-2007, 11:44 AM

Yeah a timeout seems like a nice approach.

jeremy · 03-02-2007, 11:50 AM

Most browsers should not wait indefinitely. I've moved things around a little bit in the code, let me know if you notice a difference.

--jeremy

pixellany · 03-02-2007, 12:20 PM

Can't test it until Google goes down again.......

edenCC · 03-02-2007, 08:31 PM

I never encounter these problems.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pixellany

Can't test it until Google goes down again.......

how about to change the name resolvation for *.google.com locally?

AceofSpades19 · 03-03-2007, 12:45 AM

Ya that google analytics thing made me because this website was so slow to connect to but lately its been pretty fast

ctkroeker · 03-03-2007, 08:25 PM

Well I use the no-script addon in firefox and that blocks google-analytics... Never slow here.