Things are finally under control. At least for the moment, anyway. You can see that we've managed to get the average page load time down to a reasonable length of time for the last day or so, without any large spikes:
Of course, overwhelming amounts of traffic is a good problem to have, and I won't complain if things overheat again.
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Probably migrating the site away from Spry would be a good step in the right direction.
It's unmaintained and the last stable release was 6 years ago!
Bit by bit! Spry is mostly gone; there are just a handful of things I still have to replace.
The big thrust right now is to try to get rid of Flash. A year ago, everything on the site was Flash. Now, only 2 of the 5 ongoing projects use Flash. I expect it to be gone entirely by the end of the year, other than the archived projects.
PS The biggest limitation is that we don't have funding for a developer. (Folks reading at home: Please vote for candidates that support science.) But I have a summer student who will be working primarily on web development, so I'm hoping we'll get through some of the To Do list.
I did the test - the page loads were quick - no problem, but the calculation of the score has been going on without a result for over an hour.
You have to click "next" to get to the screen with the score. Sorry about that.
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