Why is MN so slow?

Just took 27 seconds to leave this page after hitting the active link! Internet connection stable and fast as I checked it when the page was taking so long. It's just awful

It's still horrifically slow on my ipad too, using safari, to the point of near unusability. It's taking a good 10+ seconds to load up each page even from a refresh.

I agree that Mumsnet is much slower than other forums and has been for ages. It's the same whether I'm on a netbook, laptop or phone; I assume that I've not just coincidentally bought devices that happen to not like the website.

Still v v slow for me. iOS and safari.

That isn't clear - if you use the log in buttons at the top it isn't secure - not it is sometimes and not others...I mean you can log in securely but you need to go to the bottom of a thread and use the 'log in to mumsnet' option there
And actually if you reach MN from a google search the first log in you see is the unsecure one...
(Also just had a weird thing - had been logging in and out to do the images and then came back to post this -pretty sure I was logged in through the secure method ...it had my username in the comments box but wouldn't let me post -instead there was blue writing underneath the comments box (not the normal you must register thing) - saying 'please log in' ... hmmm)

As I've just posted on the other thread, the other day on my laptop the site was NOT SECURE on login. It really, truly, honestly was not. It seems to be now on my laptop, but it WAS NOT before.

Really!

I'd have thought they'd be more concerned about this, tbh.

@louMumsnet
THE LOG IN PAGE IS NOT HTTPS
or at least not always if you log in using the login button on the dropdown bar that appears at the top if you scroll up the page.
It is if you log in using the option at the end of a thread where it says you need to register to post a copy ...
These images were taken a few minutes ago -big red arrows pointing to the unsecure (and secure!) login.

Speed seems fixed for me at least. But it's still jumping. Even on the mobile site, it doesn't jump but it's like it invisibly jumps sometimes and I click on the wrong thread title, which is annoying when I do actually have slow mobile internet much of the time.

Speed is probably better because traffic is lower now.

The inability to be able to click on a thread title without it opening a completely different thread, drives me crazy!

Last night I got a pop up telling me I'd won an iPad when I clicked on one of the threads. Took me ages to get rid of it.

(I miss when Tech used to actually come and speak on the boards...)

Speed seems fixed for me at least. But it's still jumping. Even on the mobile site, it doesn't jump but it's like it invisibly jumps sometimes and I click on the wrong thread title, which is annoying when I do actually have slow mobile internet much of the time.

Is there any reason why it's ONLY the login pages using https? That was standard about five years ago, but it feels outdated now.

As well as the slowness and the porn, I'm getting acccesss denied when I click on random innocuous threads. It's not feeling like a secure site at the moment.

asked us to reassure you all

Nice but not helpful. Are you going to do anything, or just reassure us all.

Not a Chrome problem - I've got the same problem on Firefox -
and things like the homepages are not secure but as soon as you try to login it become secure, that's the case for my bank and things like Tescos and Digital spy (DS login page does say parts of the page like images are not secure but it is a https)....
Actually just looked using MS Edge browser - MN is not secure even on log in page (no warning, but no padlock) - looking at things like Tesco Grocery - and it is marked as being a secure login.

For reference the above comment took 15 seconds to post.

Another one saying that it's slower than most of the rest of the internet, pages timing out, pretty much every day, and has been for over a year now.
Using Windows 10/Firefox, and a Samsung J3 Android phone (don't buy that phone, it's crap!)

About 10% of the time if I hit a link on MN, it will take about a minute to load, or time out. Other sites are fine (except a certain social site hosted by Russians who keep fending off DNS attacks).

looked at some of the same sites using a different connection (work remote desktop, Internet Explorer) and got secure sites for all my banking, and http: for MN, DS and BBC news. Sainsburys login page was secure.

Is it a Chrome problem maybe?

i'm getting the "not secure" icon for MN, but worrying also for other sites I had a look at - Digital Spy forums, BBC news, John Lewis and Sainsburys. So a variety of discussion boards AND sites you would enter your card details.

Although as I'm now not getting any site being secure, including my personal and business banking (different banks), maybe it's me? Off to check my security stuff. Although Gmail is secure, and any Google searches I do, odd?

MN very slow, pages not loading on my phone (Android, Chrome, desktop site, not mobile or app), slowish on Chrome on PC.

I'm not moaning - honest!

I am

I have reported it @OhYouBadBadKitten and I emailed them too.

I am also getting the information that this site is not secure, along with the slowness.

catz - can you report your post please so that mn def see it.