Forum - yui.yahooapis.com

[Gorion]

When browsing the forum, sometimes at random intervals I get stuck(8+ seconds) with waiting for yui.yahooapis.com.  Apparently it might be some sort of serverside embedded api/library or whatnot.

Is this some sort of spider, are we aware of it or is it piggybacking?

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[TeaLeaf]

I've never seen that one.  I'll ask around, off the top of my head I am not  aware of any yahoo apis being used at this end.

[smilodon]

I believe it's part of "World of logs"

[TeaLeaf]

I believe it's part of "World of logs"

Ah, so it only happens on the home page then.   Although I do not get the lag on the home page either.

[ReddFour]

Also home page related - the link to the forum doesn't work in Firefox but works fine in Chrome.

[Gorion]

It happened in the forum.  Never use the homepage to be honest.

[TeaLeaf]

It happened in the forum.  Never use the homepage to be honest.

The World of Logs widget is only on the home page, that's why I thought this.  Perhaps we have something else on a standard form page using a yahoo api?  

/scratches head and goes to find someone smart enough to figure it out

[Jamoe]

A quick look at the network traffic coming from this page I we are hitting http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.9.0/build/yuiloader-dom-event/yuiloader-dom-event.js&2.9.0/build/connection/connection-min.js

Looks like we are using some JS library (http://yui.github.io/yui2/docs/yui_2.9.0_full/yuiloader/)

it's in the html source as the first piece of JS that we pull in.

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[COLOR=#303942][FONT=dejavu sans mono]<script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.9.0/build/yuiloader-dom-event/yuiloader-dom-event.js&amp;2.9.0/build/connection/connection-min.js&quot;></script>
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No idea what uses it but the page content won't be loading until that is pulled down.

Edit: I don't know enough about vbulletin or the add ons we use to workout what's doing it. We can host it locally but that adds to bandwidth costs (and might impact performances for others)

[TeaLeaf]

I'll get the hexperts to consider this, thanks Jamoe!