Comparing Speeds of Ning 2 and Ning 3 Sites

[Steve C]

I've been on Ning 2 since 2009 and I'm developing my Ning 3 site. I want to move to Ning 3 ASAP, but I've stopped for the time being because my Ning 2 site is so much faster: 3 to 4 times faster.

There is no custom code in the new site and I've added no scrips. My old site has a good amount of code, plus code in the top ad box for a javascript overlay I had developed that makes it mobile responsive.

I Creators is roughly between the two speedwise.

These are the speed comparisons between my 2 and 3 sites:

• Getting to the home page from the login page takes 10-12 seconds on the new site; and less than 2 seconds on the old one.
  
• Going from Home to Forums: 4-5 seconds on new; less than 1 second on old.
• Going from Forums to home; 4-5 seconds on new; less than 2 on old.
  
  
• Going from Home to blogs: 4 seconds on new; less than 1 second on old.
• Going from Blogs to home; 4-5 seconds on new; 1 on old.
  
• Going from Home to Groups: 3 seconds on new; less than 1 second on old.
• Going from Groups to home; 4-5 seconds on new; 1 on old.

Dmitry, the Ning head of migration, had been the best, and very attentive to my needs. He said the speed should be in line now and asked me to test it today, but it's only marginally better.

What are your experiences with Ning 3 speed?

If you moved from a Ning 2 site, how do they compare?

Any tips on how to speed things up?

Thanks

[Steve C]

And thanks so much for the link. Between your site and Creators, Ning 3 is too slow to move to at this time. Shame.

[Phil Sim]

I don't think its a Ning 3 issue. I've got another Ning 3 site and performance hasn't been an issue before. I think its just an infrastructure or temporary code issues. I think I know the bug you reported and if so that's the other "biggie" I'm aware. They have told me its a migration issue and they are working to fix it but dissapointed it wasn't prioritised as a must fix immediately issue.

[Phil Sim]

Ning Creators is pretty slow for me and I'm getting ocassional time-outs, right now, so I don't think the issue is limited to one or two sites!

[Steve C]

Great news! I got an email this morning from Dmitry Markov, the customer care manager at Ning. I hope he doesn't mind me posting this, but I doubt he does:

"I just got off the phone with our developer tech lead, and it appears there is a major complaint now for many networks on 3.0 and the fix is on the way, 2-3 days or earlier and the network speed and performance will be improved.

 

Appears to be server related, not sure of the details but currently, it's the top priority of the dev team here."

 

 

[Anastasia_Ning_Support]

Hello Steve!

Thank you for keeping everyone updated! Our Team had deployed a few updates and we have already received feedback from rosemoon and somathread owners regarding the speed improvement. As always, any other feedbacks are also very welcome!

Best regards,

The NING Team