iWeb built website on .mac extremely slow

[Anghammarad]

Built a basic website with some galleries in iWeb 08 using standard templates and uploaded it to .mac. To watch the pages in a browser is so slow it is practically unusable. It takes a minute to load a gallery page with 25 pictures. I've tried Safari 3 and Opera 9.24 on Mac and Opera 9.24 and IE7 on PC and there is really no difference in performance. I have a very fast line so thats not the problem.

Is this normal performance from an iWeb built site or is it the iWeb templates thats the culprit?

 

[sananda]

if you're in europe the download speeds are slow. there are a lot of people complaining about this. have a look at the discussion forum for .mac on the apple website. apparently some changes were made last month which may have improved the situation.

 

[Anghammarad]

Yes I noticed that many here in Europe seem to get slow download. The problem for me is that while many seem to get 70-80 kB/s I am stuck in single digit land with download speeds of around 4-5 kb/s.

 

[MacBoobsPro]

Im in the UK. My site downloads pretty sharpish (not great though) for me at home but a few of mates keep saying its barely loads at all. And even drop to about 0.1kbps. They all use PCs and a mix of Vista and XP, could that be the issue?

Actually thinking about it my site also loads very slow on my iPhone when using my home wifi connection. Weird!

 

[sananda]

I am stuck in single digit land with download speeds of around 4-5 kb/s.

don't know why it would be as slow as that.

 

[Anghammarad]

Uploaded the exact same website to my other provider and it was many times quicker. I have now canceled my .mac account.