Frustrating Slow Load Times on Squidoo

I thought that I would preface this post by saying that I really do like Squidoo as a site in general, and will continue working with Squidoo for quite some time. I have had success, and learned numerous things as well as become part of a very interesting and dynamic online community because of Squidoo.

However, I have to say that I am very frustrated by the very slow load times that I face on a daily basis on Squidoo. I have come to realize that the best times for me to work on Squidoo are either extremely late at night or very early in the morning, most likely because the bulk of Squidoo users are American and after 11 am my time, the entire country is awake and on Squidoo.

My solution to this problem has been to simplify some of my more complex lenses by taking off widgets, polls, and other more complicated modules that hold up load time, and just mainly fancy up the lens. I also do my Squidoo updates in the morning between 7 am and 10 am before I go to work.

I have talked to Squidoo's technical support department about this, and personally I think that they are between a rock and a hard place. Because they have made Squidoo such a complex site visually, and interactively, the lenses load slower. Personally, I would trade many of the visual effects for the faster loading times, but that is probably not true for everyone. I am a pretty impatient person, and don't like waiting for pages to load. Never have, never will.

So I will continue to work with Squidoo during early morning and late evening, and say that the European Squidoo lensmasters have it best right now, by being ahead of us timewise.

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