Facebook Slow To Load For Many Users

so its not just me

Pages seems to be loading fine for me, but status updates are taking forever to post. Had the same problem yesterday morning.

Facebook has been loading slowly for the past month , worse this past few weeks . Seems to be a script(Java?)problem .

Facebook loads slower than 77% of the websites on the internet. This statistic I found on Alexa.com, which monitors all of the websites in the world.

Average Load Time for Facebook.com

Slow (2.402 Seconds), 77% of sites are faster.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com

It is because they have added too many features, which adds more code that not only must be sent to your browser but also must be run on their server. They are also using a ton of Javascript, which has to be sent to your browser, it is cached once it loads.

Also they have a huge user base and their servers are being overloaded. I often can’t see pictures, just the gray border that goes around them. I often do not see any updates then all of the sudden I see like 30. I feel for any fool who buys their stock, it is just a fad like MySpace at this point. 3-5 years Facebook will no longer be king as something newer and different comes along.