website stalling on first load on osx only (not browser specific)

[poohat1000]

www.picli.com

Site stalls when you first load it on OS X - any browser, camino, firefox, safari - yet once its loaded one page. the rest of the site loads perfectly.


windows on the other hand - super fast, any browser.


Very odd - can anyone explain this?

 

[miniConvert]

Works instantly for me.

Firefox 2.0.0.7
OS X Server 10.4.10

 

[ChicoWeb]

Wow, it sure does. Seems more like a server issue.

 

[poohat1000]

Try it on a windows based machine, super fast.

Surely this hints at it being an OSX issue?

 

[angelwatt]

The problem seems in part to stem from the site trying to figure out where the visitor is from. For me because of where I'm at I eventually (after the stall) get directed to picli.com/en. If you go directly to that site there is not stall.

Therefore, the problem lies in whatever the site is doing to figure out where the visitor is from and needs to go. Not sure if they do it through server side stuff like PHP or client side with JavaScript, but I'm thinking it's the sites fault, not Apple's. I can't really determine anything further than that. Maybe they did it on purpose because they don't like Mac ... maybe.

 

[poohat1000]

your right that is the issue it seems.

However how the hell can this only affect osx based browsers, whether ff safari or camino yet have no effect on safari ie or firfox on a PC... I don't understand that

 

[angelwatt]

your right that is the issue it seems.

However how the hell can this only affect osx based browsers, whether ff safari or camino yet have no effect on safari ie or firfox on a PC... I don't understand that

Code can be made specific for both browser and operating system as they are not all equal, nor do they accept the same commands. Not knowing what the code looks like though I cannot guess what they have done to cause this.

 

[SnakeDiver]

If it stalls on first load, generally the reasoning is one of two things:

a) The first page is doing something (either client or server side as discussed)

b) There is a DNS issue.

Has anyone viewed this page on a Linux OS (CentsOS, Fedora, Ubuntu) ? Or is it jsut specific to Mac OS?