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  • cds

    If you’re worried about traffic, you should consider fixing you load time. This page took 23 seconds to load, with the comic image not loading until the end of that. That means that to read your whole archive, I’d have to burn half an hour of time staring at your blank page loading.

    I would not expect that this is related to my setup since other pages work fine, but just in case, I’m on Chrome on Windows 7. The developer tools were how I measured the load time. They also say that there are 166 javascript errors and 1 warning. A lot of the errors look like syntax errors if I’m reading this right. (Don’t know if the errors are related to the slowness, though.)

    Anyway, I don’t know what you can speed up easily, but you should at least look into making the comic image load first. Loading the discussion before the comic is not particularly useful.

    So, after all of that, I have to say, I like the art of the comic and I’m curious enough that I’ll come back and try to wade through your load times.

    • Really? Dang. It always appears to load quickly when we test it, and we have Cloudfare set up and everything. Summoning webmaster @Demonarchives !

      It’s possible it might be because I just updated WordPress, without checking to make sure that the theme is compatible and happy. Thank you for pointing this out. We’ll try to get it figured out as soon as we can so you can more easily enjoy the story and art :)

      • cds

        Hmmm… I’m feeling a bit embarrassed having just retested it. Visiting through Comic Rocket it’s 25 seconds. Visiting directly it’s closer to 12 or 13. So… that still seems really slow to me, but apparently Comic Rocket is contributing…

        • Regardless, that’s still slower than we would like, Comic Rocket or no. And javascript errors are bad too. So thanks for bringing it up so we can at least try to optimize :)

          And hopefully you’ll comment on pages you especially like, too :D

          • cds

            Screenshot sent. Thanks for looking into it. As I said in the email, now I’ll try to stop picking apart the site and go back to enjoying the comic.

        • I will double check as well… That’s not something that I see from any of the test places I can use. Then again, both CloudFlare and Disqus are behaving oddly lately since heartbleed. Could you send me a screenshot of your dev tools networking tab and console? send it to [email protected] please?

  • nightgaunt

    Mozilla Firefox quick load, no warnings of any kind.

    Since we are learning about this character we are really just barely into the routine of the position he is in. give it a little time. Too many have been weened on flash graphics and such garbage that shortens the attention span to a gnats.

    • NickDA

      Thanks. Dan fixates on the writing, and although I do think more recent pages “flow” better, both Dan and I grew up on the ElfQuest and Bone style graphic novels, so these pages never felt to heavy to me.

  • Izumi Ryu

    Hmmm…maybe because he hasn’t had to face loss again and deal with the results, he still can’t come to terms. Sometimes the worse thing about fears/anxieties is not facing them, especially for a soldier.

  • Hey! A Wing-Chun wooden man! I have spent many (painful) hours of my life in the horse riding stance.

    • Oh sweet! I picked this from some internet searching (no personal experience) so I’m glad it makes sense :D

  • Adriano

    Wow, Tenzin, you’re so smug!
    Wait to see what awaits you, meatbag!