[Chapter-delegates] Performance problems on your web-site when syndicating www.internetsociety.org/headlines/rss

[Dan Graham]

Hi All,

Thanks for highlighting this. I've asked our developer to look into this asap. I'll let you know when it has been fixed.

Best Regards,

Dan

On Oct 15, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Christian de Larrinaga wrote:

> Klaus
> 
> I had the same problem with ISOC UK England site (www.isoc-e.org) and removed the feed. 
> 
> I replaced it with a feed from scoop IT in our policy page only. To keep the amount of space down I've implemented as a rotating one line Ajax widget. I'm not convinced it's the best solution but it seems to work for the time being. 
> 
> It would be nice if the ISOC RSS feed could be brought back up to snuff again.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> Christian 
> 
> 
> On 15 Oct 2012, at 11:26, Klaus Birkenbihl wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> in general I mostly stopped complaining about the poor
>> technical quality of http://www.internetsociety.org because
>> these complains don't generate any effect or response
>> (ref http://klaus-birkenbihl.de/isoc-website-issues.html).
>> But since this error (obviously existing for some time
>> now) might effect your websites too here an alert.
>> 
>> I figured out that https://www.isoc.de/ had some performance
>> problems. When diving into it I noticed that the
>> syndication of www.internetsociety.org/headlines/rss
>> feed did not work. So I stopped syndication of this
>> feed and everything ran like charme.
>> 
>> Today I took a short look at the rss file and figured out
>> a simple reason. www.internetsociety.org/headlines/rss
>> is not well formed XML. (Is this the reason why clicking
>> "Video: RSS in plain English" on
>> http://www.internetsociety.org/rss only shows "Embedding
>> disabled by request?" Is this rather a feature than
>> a bug? ;) )
>> 
>> Summary: eliminating the syndication of
>> www.internetsociety.org/headlines/rss (it doen't work
>> anyhow) can significantly improve the speed of your Website.
>> 
>> Best, Klaus
>> 
>> -- 
>> Klaus Birkenbihl
>> Board member
>> Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
>> c/o ict-Media GmbH
>> http://www.isoc.de/
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