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

[Dan Graham]

Hi all,

This has been fixed by our IT team. 

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Regards,

Dan

On Oct 15, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Dan Graham wrote:

> 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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