I can confirm that the Consumerist has been loading really slowly all day. I guess this highlights how bored I am at work - I'm refreshing this site too often.

yes clicking the headline brought me here, and load times for this page was 29.609 seconds. Front page took 99.5 seconds for a 100% load and it was about 65 seconds before anything showed up. Its been that way since about Thursday but its worse by about 15 seconds today.

For a little background im on a low latency 12mbps connection on the north east coast.

Also the remember me checkbox doesnt seem to be doing anything and I am accepting cookies from this site.

It is very very very slow... on my T1 connection...

Its loading very very very slow..

Yeah it is crawling

Agreed -- the RSS link is now working, but I was stuck at 95% or so for a while.

RSS link now working, all of the Gawker websites I read (this, Wonkette, Kotaku) have been loading slow all day.

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They appear to have moved you to a server constructed mostly out of cheese.

Firefox reports that there are TWO things that it sits and waits for: www.consumerist.com, and cache.consumerist.com. Which sounds

I agree with Hawkins but when you say its waiting for consumerist.com thats kind of vauge. I believe when the page has loaded its waiting for images stored on the server to load. The style sheet loads after the text then its the images we wait for. At least thats how it seems.

BTW the cookie seems to be working now, dunno why.

RSS good again! Yay!

Load time definitely slow. Thank goodness for tabbed browsing.

I posted a comment earlier, but what actually happened is it sat on "Sending comment" for at least three minutes at which point I gave up.

It's not just consumerist that is slow. I think the proverbial Gawker hamster has died again.

Yeah, can confirm it is rather slow. Still, at least your feed's font (I'm reading on Sage/firefox) is normal size. Gawker's RSS is all little.

Very slow.

Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow.