VGChartz Update and New Jobs

[Munkeh111]

ioi said:

Neos said:

This is all great news for the site, I'm really happy for you ioi.
Just one minor question, but that's more of a thing that's going on for the past years =P, is the site speed ever going to increase (significantly)? I fear major businesses and the likes want high speed sites with easy access. Is there a plan to improve this?

Well this is a tough one. To be honest, I've yet to really figure out what causes the site to be "slow". The speed definitely improved with this latest version (as we moved away from heavy use of flash) and CPU useage (for the user) is down to more normal levels now - i.e the site isn't that heavy now. In terms of server CPU and bandwidth I'm not sure there is much more we can do - I know we have a few queries that aren't really optimised and these can really slow the site at times (especially when uploading new data or adding up totals etc). The main issue though is probably with ads and unfortunately all I can do there is keep getting on to our ad providers and get them to upgrade their servers.

So it is a complex issue really but something that I definitely want to improve. Do you feel the site is significantly slower than other similar sites then?

Well there aren't many comparable sites, but if we just take GamrReview, it runs much much slower than somewhere like Eurogamer, which is basically why I go to Eurogamer not GamrReview.

All these updates sound excellent, and I look forward to seeing them soon