Hey Everyone,
I just wanted to make a quick post here that we are working on rolling out some new features for the website. Some will just be convenience features while others will establish a better experience using Dalt.in. We’re hard at work on these, and we can’t wait to launch them to show you guys.
Thanks for using Dalt.in!
4 months agoHey Everyone! We’ve been asking for your opinions on the site, and we got quite a bit of useful feedback! Although we won’t be able to incorporate everyones ideas into the site, we hope to do so with the most beneficial ideas. One suggestion popped up quite a bit, and that was regarding our boring buttons. We had planned to change them in the future, however we figured we’d do a little research on the best buttons that will keep our sit running fairly fast. We have looked at different variations, and started putting ours together.
We have learned that images will slow up the loading process of the site. So, our buttons are the same, however we just gave them some color and made them pretty with CSS. CSS already does pre-loading while the content of the site is loading. Therefore, the buttons content and design will just run right along with the process. (Sorry, I don’t want to get too much into this, because I know a lot of you probably have no idea what all this means, or don’t care.) ;]
Anyways, be sure to check them out. Please be sure to aware us of any bugs you experience with them, or slower loading times than usual by contacting us here.
If you would like to see a before an after image we quickly put together, you can view that here.
Enjoy, and thanks for all the awesome suggestions!
6 months agoHey Everyone,
We have fixed our servers and everything is running really nicely. The loading time’s are responding beautifully.
Thanks for those who reported the issue, and were being patient during our downtime.
6 months agoHi Everyone, last night we discovered very slow performance in loading time. It appears that when people are hitting our site, it’s taking a while to officially launch the page open. Earlier during the day, things seemed to be running quite nicely, however it looks like we are having those hiccups again at this time. We will be spending the night working with our techs in solving this issue. It may be so that not everyone will be able to access our website. The blog however should be running. We will be keeping our updates listed below.
Thanks!
UPDATES:
[1] - We have started diagnosing the issues.
[2] - We have discovered possible issues.
We have discovered that there has been an extremely high activity of Yahoo, Google, and Bing crawlers on the server which consumed all the free apache processes. We have tried to minimize the processes on the overloaded server, however that has done nothing. For now, we are waiting for things to flatten out and return the apache process to a normal rate. The site should be running a bit better now.
6 months agoHi Everyone, Last night we cleaned up some minor things that should now improve speed. Our homepage also has less going on, for faster loading times. We’ve looked into some research and have observed results that “prettier” web pages with a lot going on tend to load slower than others. That is particularly why our homepage is quite simple. Because of this, URLs are literally shortened in a second or less. We’re very excited to have this kind of speed and performance. We’ve also compared our speed to our larger competitors. Tr.im’s overall load page time, and URL shortening time was horrible. Way too slow for those on the go. Bit.ly loaded faster and shortened faster than Tr.im, but not as fast as Dalt.in. We suspect this because Bit.ly is using a special and fancy JavaScript. We have minimized that from our site so your shortened URL pops up much more faster.
In other news, the planning of the Tools page is going great, in fact, we’re almost finished. Sometime this week we will be rocking out the plans and start putting them into action. I won’t be sharing our plans in this post, but expect it in the next one, or the next few coming up!
Thank you all so much for the support!
Enjoy!
